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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063460",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Disqualification of Councillors) Regulations 2025",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Draft Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament under sections 5(3) and 72(3)(a) of the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.\nCONSTITUTIONAL LAW\nREPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE\nMade 2025\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 5(1) and (2) and 72(1) of the Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025 (the “2025 Act”) and all other powers enabling them to do so.\nIn accordance with sections 5(3) and 72(3)(a) of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
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  "version": "current",
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      "text": "2025 asp 4."
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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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