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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/circular-economy-scotland-act-2024-commencement-no-2-regulations-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2025",
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  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring provisions of the Circular Economy (Scotland) Act 2024 (“the Act”) into force.\nRegulation 2(1) brings the provisions listed in the schedule into force on 1 August 2025. Regulation 2(2) provides that where a purpose is specified in the third column of the table in the schedule, the associated provision comes into force for that purpose only.\nThe Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 8 August 2024. Sections 26, 27 and 28 came into force on the following day.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/170/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:35:23.199740+00:00"
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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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