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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/461",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 9th March 1988\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1988\nComing into force\nRegulation 6 1st April 1988\nRemainder 11th April 1988\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2A, 4, 11, 20 and 25 of the Legal Aid Act 1974, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 4; section 2A was inserted by the Legal Aid Act 1979 (c. 26), section 1(2); section 4 was amended by the Legal Aid Act 1979 (c. 26), section 3, by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 46 and by S.I. 1987/396; section 11 was amended by the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 20, Schedule 4, paragraph 9(1)(2) and by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 46; section 20 was amended by the Legal Aid Act 1979 (c. 26), section 4(2), by the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (c. 27), section 40(1) and by the Legal Aid Act 1982 (c. 44), sections 1,16; section 25 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meanings assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”."
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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