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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-appointments-and-public-bodies-etc-scotland-act-2003-amendment-of-specified-authorities-order-2011/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111011140",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (Amendment of Specified Authorities) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-public-appointments-and-public-bodies-etc-scotland-act-2003-amendment-of-specified-authorities-order-2011",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends schedule 2 to the Public Appointments and Public Bodies etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the 2003 Act”), which lists the specified authorities to which the code of practice published by the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland applies.\nUnder paragraph 2(a) of schedule 2 to the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c.9), the Parole Board for Scotland is required to include a Lord Commissioner of Justiciary among its members appointed by the Scottish Ministers under paragraph 1 of that schedule.\nArticle 2(2) of the Order provides that the appointment by Scottish Ministers of a Lord Commissioner of Justiciary as a member of the Parole Board, is not subject to the code of practice.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111011140/note",
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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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