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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-representation-on-public-boards-scotland-act-2018/section-5",
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  "legislation": "asp/2018/4",
  "legislation_title": "Gender Representation on Public Boards (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-representation-on-public-boards-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Encouragement of applications by women",
  "text": "(1) An appointing person for a public board must take such steps as it considers appropriate to encourage women to apply to become non-executive members of the public board.\n(2) A public authority to which a public board relates must take such steps as it considers appropriate to encourage women to apply to become non-executive members of the public board.\n(3) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in subsections (1) and (2) prevents an appointing person or a public authority from taking such steps as it considers appropriate to encourage persons with other protected characteristics (within the meaning of section 4 of the Equality Act 2010) to apply to become non-executive members of the public board.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 29.5.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/119, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/4/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:17.048281+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."
}