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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1990-commencement-no-13-order-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2894",
  "legislation_title": "The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No. 13) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/law-reform-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1990-commencement-no-13-order-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The prvisions of the Act, which are specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order, and described by refernece to the subject matter in column 2 of that Schedule, shall come into force on 5th December 1996 but, where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any provision in column 3 of that Schedule, that provision shall come into force on that day only for that purpose.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/2966",
      "affecting_title": "The Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (Commencement No.13) (Amendment) Order 1996"
    }
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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."
}