{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985/schedule-1/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/73",
  "legislation_title": "Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1985",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 39 (Council’s powers where delay alleged)—\n(a) in subsection (1)—\n(i) after the word “solicitor” there shall be inserted the words “ or an incorporated practice ”;\n(ii) after the word “firm” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, it ”;\n(iii) after the word “employees” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, the incorporated practice or one of its employees was the sole trustee or it was a co-trustee only with one or more of its employees ”,\n(iv) after the word “solicitor” where secondly occurring, there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, incorporated practice ”;\n(b) in subsection (2)—\n(i) after the word “solicitor”, where first and lastly occurring there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, incorporated practice ”;\n(ii) after the word “he” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, it ”;\n(iii) after the word “firm” there shall be inserted the words “ or, as the case may be, to that incorporated practice. ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/73/schedule/1/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:40.745801+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."
}