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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/998",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Functions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 20th March 1997\nComing into force\narticle 4 1st April 1997\nthe rest of the Order 21st March 1997\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 3(4) of the Legal Aid Act 1988, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has, in accordance with section 36(2)(b) of that Act, been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:—",
  "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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