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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-8-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/159",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 8, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-8-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2010",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1982 Act” means the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982;\n“the 2000 Order” means the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Houses in Multiple Occupation) Order 2000;\n“2000 Order licence” means a licence granted under or by virtue of the 2000 Order;\n“the 2006 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006;\n“HMO licence” has the same meaning as given by section 124(2) of the 2006 Act;\n“licensing authority” means a licensing authority in terms of section 2 of the 1982 Act; and\n“the transition date” means 31st August 2011.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1982 c.45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2000/177, amended by S.S.I. 2002/161 and 2003/463."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 2 was amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 129(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/159/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}