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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996/article-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/739",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Revocations) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-and-revocations-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Court Rota for Justices",
  "text": "Notwithstanding the terms of section 16 of the District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975, the duty rota of justices for a commission area shall, from 1st April 1996 until such time as the commencement of a duty rota of justices approved by the justices' committee for that commission area, be determined by the clerk of the peace for that commission area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 20."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/739/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:10.731850+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."
}