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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/998",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (Functions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-functions-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order confers on the Legal Aid Board the functions of assessing:\n(a) the costs of representation in civil proceedings, and\n(b) the resources of any person, for any of the purposes of the Legal Aid Act 1988;\nwhen required to do so by regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/998/note",
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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."
}