{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-scotland-act-1993/section-59A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-scotland-act-1993/section-59A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/44",
  "legislation_title": "Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crofters-scotland-act-1993",
  "path": "section/59A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59A",
  "heading": "Equal opportunities",
  "text": "(1) The Commission shall discharge their functions in a manner which encourages equal opportunities and, in particular, the observance of the equal opportunities requirements.\n(2) In subsection (1) above, “equal opportunities” and “equal opportunity requirements” have the same meanings as in Section L2 of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 59A inserted (25.6.2007) by Crofting Reform etc. Act 2007 (asp 7), ss. 2, 43(3) (with ss. 40, 43(2)); S.S.I. 2007/269, art. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/44/section/59A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:40.915736+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."
}