{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asset-transfer-request-appeals-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asset-transfer-request-appeals-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2016/359",
  "legislation_title": "The Asset Transfer Request (Appeals) (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asset-transfer-request-appeals-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015;\n“asset transfer request” means the asset transfer request to which the appeal relates;\n“community transfer body” means the community transfer body which made the asset transfer request;\n“contact address” has the meaning given in regulation 16;\n“decision notice” means the notice given by the relevant authority of its decision on the asset transfer request;\n“hearing session” means a hearing held or to be held into matters specified in a notice given under rule 1(1) of the Hearing Session Rules;\n“Hearing Session Rules” means the rules set out in the schedule;\n“interested party” means any person from whom the relevant authority received representations (which were not subsequently withdrawn) in connection with the asset transfer request;\n“relevant authority” means the relevant authority to whom the asset transfer request is made;\n“relevant authority’s response” has the meaning given in regulation 4(2)(a);\n“rule” means a rule set out in the schedule;\n“specified matters” are, in relation to a request for further written representations or information under regulation 9 or to a particular hearing session, those matters which are set out in the notice given under regulation 9(1) or rule 1(1) of the Hearing Session Rules, as the case may be; and\n“working day” means every day except—\n(a) Saturday and Sunday;\n(b) 25th and 26th December; and\n(c) 1st and 2nd January.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 23.1.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2016/359/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:37.642894+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."
}