{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2020/450",
  "legislation_title": "The Census (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/census-scotland-amendment-regulations-2020",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Census\nMade 17th December 2020\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 21st December 2020\nComing into force 1st March 2021\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(1) of the Census Act 1920 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1920 c.41. Section 3(1) is relevantly amended by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1993 (c.50), schedule 1, Part 16, paragraph 1 and the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 (c.18), schedule 1, paragraph 3(2) and (3)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/450/introduction",
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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."
}