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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018/section-19",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/9",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Effect of the charter",
  "text": "(1) A court or tribunal in civil or criminal proceedings may take the Scottish social security charter into account when determining any question arising in the proceedings to which the charter is relevant.\n(2) Breach of the charter does not of itself give rise to grounds for any legal action.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 22.10.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/298, reg. 2(1)(c) (with reg. 3) (as amended (10.12.2019) by S.S.I. 2019/406, regs. 1, 2(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/9/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:13.200385+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."
}