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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summary-jurisdiction-scotland-act-1954-repealed-141996/section-79",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/48",
  "legislation_title": "Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954 (Repealed 1.4.1996)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/summary-jurisdiction-scotland-act-1954-repealed-141996",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Act 1954.\n(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen hundred and fifty–five.\n(3) Save as otherwise expressly provided this Act shall extend to Scotland only.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/2-3/48/section/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:15:56.760094+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."
}