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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-profession-and-legal-aid-scotland-act-2007-modification-and-consequential-provisions-order-2011/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/235",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007 (Modification and Consequential Provisions) Order 2011",
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  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "text": "(1) The Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980 is amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) For section 3A(5)(b)(i) substitute—\n“(i) whether paragraph (a) or (d) of the said section 20(1) applies to the practitioner;”.\n(3) In section 53(2)(c) for “(3)” substitute “(3ZA)”.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c.46; relevantly amended by the Council of the Law Society of Scotland Act 2003 (asp 14), section 1 (which inserted section 3A) and by the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007, schedule 5, paragraph 1(19)(a) (which inserted section 53(3ZA))."
    }
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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."
}