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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025/section-50",
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  "legislation": "asp/2025/11",
  "legislation_title": "Education (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/50",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Protection from actions of defamation",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the law of defamation any statement in a report published by the Chief Inspector has absolute privilege.\n(2) In this section, “statement” has the same meaning as in the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 50 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 66(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 50 in force at 1.3.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/2, reg. 2(4)(5), sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/11/section/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.294655+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."
}