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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-144",
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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/144",
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  "number": "144",
  "heading": "Minor amendments",
  "text": "In the 2007 Act—\n(a) in section 29—\n(i) in subsection (4), after “members” insert “ , and the Scottish Ministers, ”,\n(ii) in subsection (9), for “subsection (1)” substitute “ subsection (8) ”,\n(b) in section 46(1), in paragraph (c) in the definition of “unsatisfactory professional conduct”, for “section 27 of this Act” substitute “ section 27 of the 1990 Act ”,\n(c) in paragraph 13(2)(a) of schedule 1—\n(i) for “the function of deciding” substitute “ a decision ”,\n(ii) for “whether” substitute “ that ”,\n(iii) for “exercised” substitute “ taken ”,\n(d) in paragraph 1(h)(iii) of schedule 3 for “whether” substitute “ that ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 144 in force at 1.4.2011 by S.S.I. 2011/180, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/144",
    "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."
}