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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-regulatory-reform-scotland-act-2014-consequential-modifications-order-2015/article-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111124505",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2015",
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  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Modification of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "text": "(1) The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 47(6), in the definition of “statutory requirement”, the reference to an enactment includes any enactment contained in Part 3 of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.\n(3) In section 50(1), the reference to an Act of Parliament includes Part 3 of the Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014.\n(4) Nothing in this article is to be construed as excluding any defence of statutory authority otherwise available under or by virtue of any statutory provision.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c.48."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2014 asp 3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111124505/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:11:25.542598+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}