{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015/section-48",
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  "legislation": "asp/2015/6",
  "legislation_title": "Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/community-empowerment-scotland-act-2015",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Approval of members of community to buy land",
  "text": "In section 51 of the 2003 Act (exercise of right to buy: approval of community and consent of Ministers), in subsection (2)(a)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (i)—\n(i) for the words “at least half”, substitute “ the proportion ”,\n(ii) after “above,”, insert “ who ”, and\n(iii) after “land”, insert “ is, in the circumstances, sufficient to justify the community body's proceeding to buy the land; ”,\n(b) the word “; or” immediately following sub-paragraph (i) is repealed, and\n(c) sub-paragraph (ii) is repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 15.4.2016 by S.S.I. 2015/399, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2015/6/section/48",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:50.337594+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."
}