{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2009/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/393",
  "legislation_title": "The Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/flood-risk-management-scotland-act-2009-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2009",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2009.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009;\n“the appointed day” means 26th November 2009; and\n“the 1970 Act” means the Agriculture Act 1970.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1970 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/393/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:58:53.343711+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."
}