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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-disqualification-of-councillors-regulations-2025/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111063460",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Disqualification of Councillors) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-parliament-disqualification-of-councillors-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Disqualification of Councillors",
  "text": "In section 15 (disqualification from membership of the Parliament)—\n(a) after subsection (1)(b) insert—\n“(bzc) the person is a councillor,”,\n(b) in subsection (4) before the definition of “relevant notification requirements” insert—\n““councillor” means a member of a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 15(1) is amended by sections 40(4) and 146, paragraph 94 of schedule 9 and Part 5 of schedule 18 of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4) and sections 6(2)(a), 12(2) and 15(2) of the 2025 Act, S.S.I. 2025/XXX and S.S.I. 2025/XXX."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111063460/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:31.217270+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."
}