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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-3-and-savings-order-2015/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-3-and-savings-order-2015/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/399",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3 and Savings) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-3-and-savings-order-2015",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3 and Savings) Order 2015 and comes into force on 15th April 2016.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 2003 Act” means the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003;\n“the Act” means the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015;\n“application to register a community interest in land” means an application to register a community interest in land under section 37(1) of the 2003 Act;\n“community interest in land” means a community interest in land registered under section 37 of the 2003 Act; and\n“the Register” means the Register of Community Interests in Land kept under section 36 of the 2003 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/399/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:26:49.593141+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."
}