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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dormant-bank-and-building-society-accounts-act-2008/section-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/31",
  "legislation_title": "Dormant Bank and Building Society Accounts Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dormant-bank-and-building-society-accounts-act-2008",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Distribution of money for meeting Scottish expenditure",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument make provision restricting the purposes for which, or the kinds of person to which, a distribution of dormant assets money for meeting Scottish expenditure may be made.\n(2) Before making an order under this section the Scottish Ministers shall consult the Big Lottery Fund and such other persons (if any) as they think appropriate.\n(3) An order under this section may not be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 20(1) substituted (6.6.2022) by Dormant Assets Act 2022 (c. 5), s. 34(3), Sch. 1 para. 12(1)(b); S.I. 2022/582, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 12.3.2009 by S.I. 2009/490, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/31/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:11:31.523914+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."
}