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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-scotland-act-2010-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2012/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2012/9780111519080",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2012",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Construction of references to an office-holder in the Scottish Administration",
  "text": "(1) Unless the context otherwise requires, references in the Scotland Act 1998 and any other enactment (except the Crown Suits (Scotland) Act 1857) to an office-holder in the Scottish Administration are to be taken to include a reference to the Scottish Housing Regulator.\n(2) Paragraph (1) applies whether or not the enactment defines the expression “office-holder in the Scottish Administration” by reference to the Scotland Act 1998 or any specific provision of that Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1857 c. 44."
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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."
}