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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980/schedule-1B/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/44",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-1980",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "The committee may, from time to time—\n(a) appoint from among its own members, a sub-committee—\n(i) to discharge such of the functions of the committee as the committee may specify; or\n(ii) to advise the committee on any matter relating to the discharge of the functions of the committee:\nProvided that any person so appointed shall, upon ceasing to be a member of the committee, cease also to be a member of the sub-committee;\n(b) appoint a chairman from among its own members and revoke the appointment of his predecessor, if any;\n(c) subject to the provisions of this Act, make, vary or revoke standing orders—\n(i) regulating the quorum, procedure and place of meeting of the committee or of any of its sub-committees; or\n(ii) regulating the manner in which any dispute relating to procedure, or the interpretation of standing orders made under this sub-paragraph or the following paragraph, is to be resolved;\nbut subject to any such standing orders and to the provisions of this Act the quorum, procedure and place of meeting of the committee or of any of its sub-committees shall be such as the committee, or in respect of itself the sub-committee, may determine.",
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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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