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  "legislation_title": "The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2013",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exceptions from section 4(3) of the Act",
  "text": "There is excepted from the provisions of section 4(3)(b) of the Act—\n(a) any profession, office, employment or occupation specified in Schedule 4;\n(b) any action taken for the purpose of safeguarding national security; and\n(c) any decision or proposed decision taken by a person specified in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to do or to refuse to do anything specified in that Part.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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