{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-designated-responsible-authorities-scotland-order-2013/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-designated-responsible-authorities-scotland-order-2013/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2013/314",
  "legislation_title": "The Flood Risk Management (Designated Responsible Authorities) (Scotland) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-designated-responsible-authorities-scotland-order-2013",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order designates as ‘responsible authorities’ for the purposes of the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (“the Act”), the following public bodies and office-holders—\nthe Cairngorms National Park Authority,\nThe Forestry Commissioners, and\nthe Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority.\nFor the purposes of the Act, each responsible authority must, among other things, exercise their flood risk related functions (in or as regards Scotland) with a view to reducing overall flood risk.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2013/314/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:24.454373+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."
}