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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/qualifications-of-chief-social-work-officers-scotland-regulations-1996/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/515",
  "legislation_title": "The Qualifications of Chief Social Work Officers (Scotland) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/qualifications-of-chief-social-work-officers-scotland-regulations-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND\nMade 29th February 1996\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1996\nComing into force 1st April 1996\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 3(2) and 94(1) of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49; section 3 was substituted by section 45 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39); section 94(1) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made; that definition was inserted by the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 (c. 54), Schedule 5, paragraph 64(1) and amended by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 65), Schedule 27, Part II, paragraph 186."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/515/introduction",
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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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