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  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/11",
  "legislation_title": "Electricity (Scotland) Act 1979 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electricity-scotland-act-1979-repealed",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where any member of either of the Boards is absent from the meetings of the Board for more than 6 months consecutively, except for some reason approved by the Secretary of State, the Secretary of State shall forthwith declare the office of that member to be vacant and thereupon the office shall become vacant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Section 1 and in Schedule 1, paragraphs 2 to 5, in paragraph 6 the words “Each of the Boards shall be a body corporate and” and the words “shall have power to regulate their own procedure” and paragraphs 7 to 11 repealedprosp."
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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