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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986/schedule-2/part-II/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/47",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-aid-scotland-act-1986",
  "path": "schedule/2/part/II/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Civil legal aid shall not be available in relation to —\n(a) election petitions under the Representation of the People Act 1983 ;\n(b) simplified divorce applications under the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Session or the sheriff court;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(d) petitions by a debtor for the sequestration of his estate under section 2(1)(a) of the Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 3 substituted (1.4.1993) by S.I. 1993/969, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 3(c) repealed (28.11.2016) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 23(2); S.S.I. 2016/291, art. 2, 3(1)(3), sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 3(d) words substituted (30.11.2016) by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 21), s.237(2), sch. 8 para 10; S.S.I. 2016/294, reg. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1983 c. 2"
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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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