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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-legal-services-scotland-act-2025/section-31.json",
  "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": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Offence of pretending to have acquired rights",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person without reasonable excuse—\n(a) takes or uses any name, title, addition or description implying that the person is authorised to exercise an acquired right,\n(b) otherwise pretends to be authorised to exercise an acquired right.\n(2) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 103(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 5.3.2026 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2026/96, reg. 2(1)(2), sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/8/section/31",
    "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."
}