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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-regulations-1989/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1989/340",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Advice and Assistance Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-advice-and-assistance-regulations-1989",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 3rd March 1989\nLaid before Parliament 8th March 1989\nComing into force 1st April 1989\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 2, 9, 10, 11, 34, and 43 of the Legal Aid Act 1988, having consulted the General Council of the Bar, the Law Society, the County Court Rule Committee and the Magistrates' Courts Rule Committee, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:–",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 34."
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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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