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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-scotland-act-2013/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-scotland-act-2013/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2013/6",
  "legislation_title": "High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/high-hedges-scotland-act-2013",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application for high hedge notice",
  "text": "(1) Where subsection (2) applies, an owner or occupier of a domestic property (referred to in this Act as the “applicant”) may apply to the relevant local authority for a high hedge notice.\n(2) This subsection applies where the applicant considers that the height of a high hedge situated on land owned or occupied by another person adversely affects the enjoyment of the domestic property which an occupant of that property could reasonably expect to have.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in force at 1.4.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/54, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2013/6/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:30.198355+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."
}