{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-court-districts-amendment-order-2009/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-court-districts-amendment-order-2009/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/293",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheriff Court Districts Amendment Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-court-districts-amendment-order-2009",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Sheriff Court\nMade 17th August 2009\nComing into force 31st August 2009\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 3 and 43 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c.58. The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 3 and 43 of the 1971 Act were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/293/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."
}