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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-cairngorms-national-park-designation-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-scotland-order-2003/article-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2003/0110617169",
  "legislation_title": "The Cairngorms National Park Designation, Transitional and Consequential Provisions (Scotland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-cairngorms-national-park-designation-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-scotland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“the 1973 Act” means the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n“the 1989 Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“the 1993 Act” means the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993;\n“the 1997 Act” means the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997\n“the 2000 Act” means the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000;\n“the establishment date” means 25th March 2003;\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, any part of whose area is within the National Park;\n“local member” has the same meaning as in Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act;\n“National Park” means the National Park designated by article 3 of this Order;\n“the Authority” means the National Park authority established by article 4 of this Order;\n“the operational date” means 1st September 2003.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1989 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1997 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}