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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-no2-regulations-1996/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-no2-regulations-1996/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/641",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-no2-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation provisions",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996 except for regulations 2(1) and 3 which shall come into force on 8th April 1996.\n(2) In regulations 3 and 4, a regulation or Schedule referred to by number means the regulation or Schedule so numbered in the Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1989/340; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1989/560, 1990/486, 1991/636, 2305, 1992/591, 719, 2654, 1993/790, 1994/805, 1823, 1995/795 and 949."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/641/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:49:19.666974+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."
}