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  "legislation": "asp/2025/8",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Application",
  "text": "This Part applies where the Lord President is satisfied that—\n(a) an act or omission of a category 1 or category 2 regulator (or a series of acts or omissions) has had, or is likely to have, an adverse impact on the observance of any of the regulatory objectives,\n(b) a category 1 or category 2 regulator has failed to comply with a requirement imposed on it by or under this Act (including a direction given in accordance with this Part), or\n(c) a category 1 or category 2 regulator has failed to adhere to its internal governance arrangements (including, in particular, those relating to the independent and effective exercise of its regulatory functions).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 5.3.2026 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. 1"
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/8/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:57.670595+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."
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