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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-transport-partnerships-establishment-constitution-and-membership-scotland-order-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2005/0110697588",
  "legislation_title": "The Regional Transport Partnerships (Establishment, Constitution and Membership) (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regional-transport-partnerships-establishment-constitution-and-membership-scotland-order-2005",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSection 1(1) of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 places the Scottish Ministers under a duty to, by order–\n(a) divide Scotland into regions for the purposes of Part 1 of that Act (Regional Transport);\n(b) create, for each region, a body corporate to be known as the Transport Partnership; and\n(c) provide as to the constitution and membership of each Transport Partnership.\nThis Order provides for Transport Partnerships to be established in pursuance of section 1(1) of the 2005 Act.\nSchedule 1 specifies the names of the regions, the constituent councils of each Partnership and their initial composition.\nSchedule 2 makes provision as to the constitution and membership of each Partnership.\nParagraph 1 provides for the appointment of members to the Partnerships and paragraph 2 makes provision for the duration and termination of membership.\nParagraph 3 specifies the voting arrangements for the Partnerships.\nParagraph 4 provides for the appointment of Chairpersons and Deputy Chairpersons and paragraph 5 provides for the appointment of a secretary.\nParagraph 6 makes provision as to the meetings of the Partnerships, standing orders and quorum.\nParagraph 7 allows the Partnerships to set up committees and sub-committees and to delegate functions to committees.\nParagraph 8 allows the Partnerships to pay expenses to their members and to observers.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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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