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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/7",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 2012 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 2013",
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  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Right of the Advocate General to take part in proceedings",
  "text": "Where, before the relevant date, the Advocate General was a party to criminal proceedings so far as they related to a convertible devolution issue by virtue of paragraph 6 of Schedule 6 to the 1998 Act, the Advocate General is to be treated as being a party to criminal proceedings in pursuance of section 288ZA(1) of the 1995 Act so far as they relate to a compatibility issue.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/7/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:07:48.014831+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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