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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-3D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-3D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/3D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3D",
  "heading": "Resolving regulatory disputes",
  "text": "(1) This section applies in relation to any dispute arising between the regulatory committee and the Council (acting in any other capacity) with respect to the application of section 3B.\n(2) If the dispute cannot be settled by the parties, it is to be submitted to (and resolved by) arbitration.\n(3) The arbitrator is to be appointed—\n(a) jointly by the parties, or\n(b) in the absence of agreement for joint appointment, by the Lord President on a request made by either (or both) of them.\n(4) The arbitrator's resolution of the dispute is final and binding on the parties.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 3B-3G inserted (1.4.2011 for specified purposes, 1.6.2011 in so far as not already in force) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 133(2), 150(2); S.S.I. 2011/180, arts. 3, 5(d), sch."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/46/section/3D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:15.254365+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."
}