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  "legislation": "asp/2018/14",
  "legislation_title": "Historical Sexual Offences (Pardons and Disregards) (Scotland) Act 2018",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to pardon persons convicted of certain historical sexual offences and to provide a process for convictions for those offences to be disregarded.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 6th June 2018 and received Royal Assent on 11th July 2018",
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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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