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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2016/schedule/paragraph-15",
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  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 2016",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/15",
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  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 16 (dispute resolution)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) any child who has attained the age of 12 years and who the authority is satisfied has capacity as respects views or decisions relating to the purposes of resolving such disputes,”, and\n(b) in subsection (3), after the word “parent”, where it occurs in each of paragraphs (a) and (b), insert “ , child ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 15 in force at 1.8.2017 by S.S.I. 2017/164, reg. 2, sch."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}