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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/25",
  "legislation_title": "Succession (Scotland) Act 1973",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to increase the amounts of the sums payable to a surviving spouse under sections 8 and 9 of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 and to empower the Secretary of State by order further to increase such amounts.\n[23rd May 1973]",
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  "status": null,
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      "text": "Words of enactment omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1948 (c. 62), s. 3"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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