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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lay-representation-in-proceedings-relating-to-residential-property-scotland-order-2010/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Lay Representation in Proceedings relating to Residential Property (Scotland) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lay-representation-in-proceedings-relating-to-residential-property-scotland-order-2010",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Persons or bodies prescribed for the purpose of approving lay representatives",
  "text": "For the purposes of section 5F(3) of the 1894 Act and section 24E(3) of the 1970 Act, the persons or bodies prescribed, or of a prescribed description, are—\n(a) those entered on the register of advice organisations established and maintained by the Scottish Legal Aid Board under section 12A of the Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986;\n(b) those accredited at Type III level against the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers in the area of competence of mortgages/secured loans;\n(c) councils constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994; and\n(d) citizens advice bureaux entered in the register of member bureaux maintained by the Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux – Citizens Advice Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c.47. Section 12A was inserted by section 67(6) of the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Described in the Scottish Government Manual “Scottish National Standards for Information and Advice Providers: A Quality Assurance Framework 2009”, published in Edinburgh, September 2009 (ISBN 978-0-7559-8143-4). The housing specific competences are contained in section 2 of the Manual."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1994 c.39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Scottish charity number SC016637; Scottish company number SC089892. It maintains the register of member bureaux in accordance with the provisions of Article 3 of its Articles of Association."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/264/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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