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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-proceedings-general-amendment-regulations-1988/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/468",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Aid in Criminal Proceedings (General) (Amendment) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-in-criminal-proceedings-general-amendment-regulations-1988",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 9th March 1988\nLaid before Parliament 18th March 1988\nComing into force 11th April 1988\nThe Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 39 of the Legal Aid Act 1974, and now vested in him, and sections 7 and 16(4) of the Legal Aid Act 1982, and with the concurrence of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1980/705."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1982 c. 44; section 7 was amended by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 10, paragraph 56; section 16(4) is an interpretation provision and is cited because of the meaning assigned to the word“regulations”."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/468/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."
}