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  "legislation_title": "The Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 5) Regulations 2023",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Criminal Law\nMade 24th January 2023\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 26th January 2023\nComing into force 1st April 2023\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 45(2) of the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Act 2015.",
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  "annotations": [
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      "text": "2015 asp 12."
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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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