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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-140",
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  "legislation": "asp/2010/16",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010",
  "path": "section/140",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "140",
  "heading": "Exclusion from giving legal assistance",
  "text": "In section 31 (solicitors and counsel) of the 1986 Act—\n(a) in subsections (3), (4) and (5), for “relevant body” wherever appearing substitute “ Board ”,\n(b) subsections (6) and (10) are repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 140 in force at 1.5.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 4(b) (with art. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/140",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:19.904135+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}