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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-information-scotland-regulations-2004/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/520",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/environmental-information-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Ministerial certificates",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may, for the purposes of regulation 10, certify that making environmental information available would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially national security; and such a certificate is conclusive of that fact.\n(2) A certificate under this regulation may identify the information to which it applies by means of a general description and may be expressed to have prospective effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/520/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:28:34.156721+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."
}