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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-regulations-2004/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/527",
  "legislation_title": "The Fire Services (Appointments and Promotion) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fire-services-appointments-and-promotion-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "FIRE SERVICES\nMade 1st December 2004\nLaid before Parliament 2nd December 2004\nComing into force 29th December 2004\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 18(1) of the Fire Services Act 1947, after consultation with the Scottish Central Fire Brigades Advisory Council in accordance with that section, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c. 41; section 18 was amended by section 6 of the Fire Services Act 1959 (c. 44). The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1988 (c. 46)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/527/introduction",
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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."
}