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  "legislation_title": "National Library of Scotland Act 2012",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Act—\n“the 1925 Act” means the National Library of Scotland Act 1925 (c.73),\n“the 2003 Act” means the Legal Deposit Libraries Act 2003 (c.28),\n“the Faculty” means the Faculty of Advocates,\n“NLS” has the meaning given by section 1(1),\n“object” includes a thing in electronic form,\n“on line electronic publication” has the same meaning as in section 14 of the 2003 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 1.2.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/1, art. 2"
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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