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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/education-scotland-act-2025/section-51",
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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/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "General powers",
  "text": "The Chief Inspector may do anything which appears to the Chief Inspector—\n(a) to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or in connection with, the performance of the Chief Inspector’s functions, or\n(b) to be otherwise conducive to the performance of those functions.",
  "extent": "S",
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 51 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 66(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 51 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/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.294655+00:00"
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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."
}