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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015-commencement-no-5-order-2016/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2016/394",
  "legislation_title": "The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2016",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Community Empowerment\nMade 24th November 2016\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 28th November 2016\nComing into force 16th December 2016\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 145(2) of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2015 asp 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 8 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10) allows the power to be exercised so as to appoint different days for different purposes."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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