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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-statistics-scotland-act-1869/section-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/32-33/33",
  "legislation_title": "Judicial Statistics (Scotland) Act 1869",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judicial-statistics-scotland-act-1869",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Provision for enforcement.",
  "text": "In case any person shall fail to fill up and return such schedule, or shall fail or neglect to do what is herein required of such person, or in case any obstruction shall arise in the execution of this Act, it shall be lawful for Her Majesty’s Advocate for Scotland to apply by summary petition to the Court of Sessions; and in case any person shall consider himself aggrieved by anything that he is required to do under the provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for him to apply by summary petition to the Court of Session; and in either case the court shall deal therewith according to the practice as to summary petitions, and shall do therein as may seem just and necessary for the execution of the purposes of this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4: functions transferred (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/901, arts. 3-11, Sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/32-33/33/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:56:39.621748+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."
}