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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/126",
  "legislation_title": "The Mental Health (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2017",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 5th May 2017 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the 2015 Act specified in column 1 of the table in the schedule (the subject matter of which is specified in column 2 of that table).\n(2) Where a purpose is specified in column 3 of that table in relation to a provision in column 1, that provision comes into force on 5th May 2017 only for that purpose.",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/126/article/2",
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  "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."
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