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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-accounting-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/46",
  "legislation_title": "The Carbon Accounting Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/carbon-accounting-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2016",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Climate Change\nMade 26th January 2016\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 28th January 2016\nComing into force 1st April 2016\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 13(5), 20(1) and 96(2)(a) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to the European Communities Act 1972 and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Scottish Ministers that it is expedient for the references to EU instruments in these Regulations to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2009 asp 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and relevantly amended by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) (“the 2008 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 2(2) was amended by paragraph 15(3) of Schedule 8 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46) (which was amended by section 27(4) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”)). Section 2(2) was also amended by section 27(1) of the 2006 Act and Part 1 of the Schedule to the 2008 Act."
    }
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  "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."
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