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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judiciary-and-courts-scotland-act-2008-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2009/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/2231",
  "legislation_title": "The Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2009",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Construction of references to an office-holder in the Scottish Administration",
  "text": "(1) Unless the context otherwise requires, references in the Scotland Act 1998 and any other enactment (except the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857) to an office-holder in the Scottish Administration are to be taken to include a reference to the Scottish Court Service established by section 60(1) of the 2008 Act.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies whether or not the enactment defines the expression “office-holder in the Scottish Administration” by reference to the Scotland Act 1998 or any specific provision of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1857 c.44."
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2015/700",
      "affecting_title": "The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2015"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/2231/article/3",
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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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