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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scope-regulations-northern-ireland-2007/introduction",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2007/166",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid (Scope) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scope-regulations-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LEGAL AID AND ADVICE\nMade 10th March 2007\nComing into operation 30th April 2007\nTo be laid before Parliament\nThe Lord Chancellor makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 10(2), 22 and 27 of the Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 and now vested in him:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/228 (N.I. 8); Article 27 is an interpretation provision and is recited because of the meaning assigned to the words “prescribed” and “regulations”"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/159"
    }
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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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