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  "legislation_title": "Scottish Public Services Ombudsman Act 2002",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision (including provision for the purposes of section 91 of the Scotland Act 1998) for the appointment and functions of the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman; and for connected purposes.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 21st March 2002 and received Royal Assent on 23rd April 2002",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Act applied by 2005 asp. 3 s. 11A(1)-(4) (as inserted (15.8.2011) by Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 8), ss. 131, 134(7)(8); S.S.I. 2011/278, art. 2(c))"
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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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