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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-56",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110715711",
  "legislation_title": "The Representation of the People (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-representation-of-the-people-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/56",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Transitional provision: regulation 31J",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies until paragraph 2(1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to the Children Act 2004 comes into force.\n(2) Regulation 31J must be read as if for sub paragraphs (g) to (i) of paragraph (4) there were substituted–\n“(g) any director of social services in England or Wales within the meaning of section 6(1) of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Regulation 31J is inserted by regulation 12 of these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1970 c. 42; section 6(1) was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Children Act 2004 (c. 31)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110715711/regulation/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:18:41.860851+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."
}