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  "legislation": "nia/2016/14",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Complaints and Regulation Act (Northern Ireland) 2016",
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  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the Department” means the Department of Finance and Personnel;\n“the Law Society” means the Law Society of Northern Ireland;\n“the Legal Services Oversight Commissioner” means the Legal Services Oversight Commissioner for Northern Ireland and references to “the Commissioner” shall be construed accordingly;\n“notice” means notice in writing;\n“statutory provision” has the meaning given in section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954;\n“the 1976 Order” means the Solicitors (Northern Ireland) Order 1976.",
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  "version": "current",
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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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