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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-17",
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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/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Licensing appeals",
  "text": "(1) An applicant for a licence or (as the case may be) a licensed provider may appeal against a relevant licensing decision taken by virtue of this Part—\n(a) to the sheriff,\n(b) within the period of 3 months beginning with the date on which that decision is intimated to it.\n(2) A relevant licensing decision is a decision to—\n(a) refuse the licensed provider's application for—\n(i) a licence, or\n(ii) renewal of its licence,\n(b) attach conditions or restrictions to its licence, or\n(c) revoke or suspend its licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 2.7.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/152, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/17",
    "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."
}