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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1938",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid (General) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-general-amendment-no-2-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 7th November 1988\nLaid before Parliament 9th November 1988\nComing into force 1st December 1988\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 20 and 25 of the Legal Aid Act 1974, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 4; 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), by the Legal Aid Act 1982 (c. 44), sections 1, 16, and by the Legal Aid Act 1988 (c. 34), Schedule 8; section 25 is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1938/introduction",
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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."
}