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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-specific-duties-scotland-amendment-regulations-2024/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2024/9780111059876",
  "legislation_title": "The Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-equality-act-2010-specific-duties-scotland-amendment-regulations-2024",
  "path": "note",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (“the principal Regulations”).\nRegulation 2:\nadds Community Justice Scotland and the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland as listed authorities for the purposes of the principal Regulations,\nmodifies the principal Regulations in their application to those newly listed authorities, so as to provide different dates by which each authority must comply with the duties in regulations 3, 4(1) and 4(4) of the principal Regulations,\namends regulation 8A(1) of the principal Regulations to provide different dates by which each of the newly listed authorities must publish gender pay gap information and statements on equal pay etc. under regulations 7(1) and 8(1) of the principal Regulations,\namends regulation 8A(4) of the principal Regulations to define the “relevant period” which is applicable to the newly listed authorities for the purposes of regulation 8A(3) (which provides that a listed authority is not required to publish the information if it did not have 20 or more employees at any time during the relevant period), and\nremoves, from the schedule of the principal Regulations, the entries for community justice authorities and the chief officer of a community justice authority (those authorities having been dissolved by section 36(1) of the Community Justice (Scotland) Act 2016).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2024/9780111059876/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:29:17.500451+00:00"
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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."
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