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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-scotland-act-2010/section-86",
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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/86",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Immunity from damages",
  "text": "(1) Neither an approved regulator nor any of its officers, members or employees is liable in damages for any act or omission occurring in the exercise (or purported exercise) of its functions under this Part.\n(2) But subsection (1) is ineffective if it is shown that the act or omission was in bad faith.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 86 in force at 2.7.2012 by S.S.I. 2012/152, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/16/section/86",
    "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."
}