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  "legislation": "asp/2021/6",
  "legislation_title": "Protection of Workers (Retail and Age-restricted Goods and Services) (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/protection-of-workers-retail-and-age-restricted-goods-and-services-scotland-act-2021",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to create an offence of assaulting, threatening or abusing retail workers; and to provide for a statutory aggravation of that offence where the retail worker is enforcing a statutory age restriction.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 19th January 2021 and received Royal Assent on 24th February 2021",
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  "version": "current",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:37.192665+00:00"
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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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