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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-protection-and-guidance-scotland-act-2020/section-4",
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  "legislation": "asp/2020/9",
  "legislation_title": "Female Genital Mutilation (Protection and Guidance) (Scotland) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/female-genital-mutilation-protection-and-guidance-scotland-act-2020",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Offences: consequential modification",
  "text": "(1) In section 5 of the 2005 Act, for “this Act” substitute “ section 1 or section 3 ”.\n(2) The title of section 5 of that Act becomes “ Penalties for offences under section 1 or 3 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/9/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:48.582634+00:00"
  },
  "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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