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  "legislation": "asp/2003/18",
  "legislation_title": "Education (School Meals) (Scotland) Act 2003",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to confer powers on the Scottish Ministers to prescribe circumstances in which education authorities are obliged to ensure that provision is made for pupils to receive milk, meals or other refreshments free of charge; and to provide that the first exercise of those powers has retrospective effect.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 11th June 2003 and received Royal Assent on 7 July 2003",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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