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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electoral-administration-act-2006-commencement-no-10-and-transitional-provision-order-2016/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/551",
  "legislation_title": "The Electoral Administration Act 2006 (Commencement No. 10 and Transitional Provision) Order 2016",
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  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The following provisions of the 2006 Act come into force on 4th May 2016 so far as they relate to a member of the Scottish Parliament—\n(a) section 59(1), (2) and (3) (reporting donations to holders of certain elective offices);\n(b) paragraph 99 of Schedule 1 so far as it provides for the insertion of paragraph 16 of Schedule 7A (register of recordable transactions) to the 2000 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 59 was amended by section 15 of the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament (Amendment) Act 2016 (asp 4)."
    }
  ],
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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."
}