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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993/part-I/crossheading-interpretation",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993/part-I/crossheading-interpretation.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/9",
  "legislation_title": "Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993",
  "path": "part/I/crossheading/interpretation",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Interpretation and powers to amend",
  "text": null,
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 27 cross-heading substituted (11.2.2025) by Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 1), ss. 3(4), 8(2) (with sch. paras. 3, 4); S.S.I. 2025/17, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2007/17",
      "affecting_title": "Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:16.864603+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."
}