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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988-commencement-order-1988/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2038",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 Commencement Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988-commencement-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order appoints the days on which the provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (“the Act”) are to come into force.\nArticles 3 and 4 of the Order provide that the provisions of the Act which are specified in Schedules 1 and 2 are to come into force respectively on 1st December 1988 and 2nd January 1989, subject to any restrictions specified in the Schedules.\nArticle 5 of the Order brings into force on 1st April 1989 the provisions of the Act so far as they are not then in force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2038/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:54:33.641403+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."
}