{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-statutory-instruments-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-statutory-instruments-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111012505",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Statutory Instruments Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-scottish-statutory-instruments-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Numbering of instruments",
  "text": "(1) After receiving a certified copy of an instrument in accordance with section 41(1) of the Act, the Queen’s Printer must—\n(a) allocate the instrument to the series of the calendar year in which it was made; and\n(b) assign a number to the instrument in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) The first instrument allocated to the series of each calendar year is to be assigned number 1 and the instruments allocated to that series thereafter are, as nearly as possible in the order in which the certified copies are received by the Queen’s Printer, to be assigned numbers consecutively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111012505/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:37:07.163404+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."
}