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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-horizon-system-offences-scotland-act-2024/introduction",
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  "legislation": "asp/2024/6",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office (Horizon System) Offences (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-horizon-system-offences-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to provide for the quashing of certain convictions for offences of dishonesty connected to the carrying on of a post office business at a time when the Horizon system was in use; to provide for the deletion of details of alternatives to prosecution in relation to such offences; and for connected purposes.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 30th May 2024 and received Royal Assent on 13th June 2024",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/6/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:10.121563+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."
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