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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-scotland-act-1937/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-scotland-act-1937/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/43",
  "legislation_title": "Public Records (Scotland) Act 1937",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-records-scotland-act-1937",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Preservation, &c. of records.",
  "text": "The Keeper shall take such steps as may seem to him necessary for the cleaning, preserving, repairing and arranging of any records transmitted to him in pursuance of this Act or otherwise, and for the making of calendars, indexes and catalogues thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 8 modified (S.) (5.2.2009) by Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008 (asp 7), ss. 3(2), 18(2); S.S.I. 2009/5, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw8and1Geo6/1/43/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:18.216747+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."
}