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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inquiries-scotland-rules-2007/article-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Inquiries (Scotland) Rules 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inquiries-scotland-rules-2007",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Recognised legal representative",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies where–\n(a) a core participant, other than a core participant referred to in rule 6; or\n(b) any other person required or permitted to give evidence or to produce documents or any other thing during the course of the inquiry,\nhas appointed a qualified lawyer to act on that person’s behalf.\n(2) The chairman must regard that lawyer as that person’s recognised legal representative in respect of the proceedings at the inquiry.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/560/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:09:41.187076+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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