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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1997/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2007",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1997 and shall come into force on 10th September 1997.\n(2) In these Rules, “the principal Rules” means the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1931, amended by S.I. 1996/32."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2007/article/1",
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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."
}