{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Divorce: reduction in separation periods",
  "text": "In subsection (2) of section 1 of the 1976 Act (irretrievable breakdown of marriage to be sole ground of divorce)—\n(a) in paragraph (d), for “two years” there shall be substituted “ one year ”; and\n(b) in paragraph (e), for “five” there shall be substituted “ two ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 11 in force at 4.5.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/2/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:18.094952+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."
}