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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/independent-qualified-conveyancers-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/316",
  "legislation_title": "The Independent Qualified Conveyancers (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
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  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Independent financial advice",
  "text": "An independent qualified conveyancer shall, before he accepts instructions from a client to provide conveyancing services, advise the client in the terms of engagement letter of his right to obtain independent financial advice in connection with the provision of those services or with any transaction to which those services relate and shall take no action to prevent the client obtaining such advice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/316/regulation/7",
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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."
}