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  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/51",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1907",
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  "path": "schedule/First/paragraph/42A.1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "42A.1",
  "heading": "Interpretation of this Chapter",
  "text": "In this Chapter—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Competition Act 1998;\n“competition authority” has the meaning given by paragraph 3(1) of schedule 8A of the 1998 Act;\n“competition proceedings” has the meaning given by paragraph 2(4) of schedule 8A of the 1998 Act; and\n“the Directive” means Directive 2014/104/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 November 2014 on certain rules governing actions for damages under national law for infringements of the competition law provisions of the Member States and of the European Union as amended from time to time; and\n“investigation materials” has the meaning given by paragraph 3(3) of schedule 8A of the 1998 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 Ch. 42A inserted (26.5.2017) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session 1994 and Ordinary Cause Rules 1993 Amendment) (Competition Proceedings) 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/130), paras. 1(2), 3(2) (with para. 4)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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