{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/998",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Functions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "This Order may be cited as the Legal Aid (Functions) Order 1997 and shall come into force:\n(a) as to article 4, on 1st April 1997;\n(b) as to the rest of the Order, on the day following the day on which it was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/998/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:21.570240+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."
}