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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1436",
  "legislation_title": "The Legal Services Act 2007 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitory Provisions) Order 2008",
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  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2007 Act shall come into force on 1st October 2008—\n(a) sections 194, to the extent that it is not already in force, 195 and 196;\n(b) Schedule 20; and\n(c) in Schedule 23, the entries relating to the Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980, the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 and the Legal Profession and Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 2007.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 30.6.2008, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 (c.46)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1990 (c.40)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2007 asp 5."
    }
  ],
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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."
}