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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025/section-71.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/13",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/71",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Fuel poverty strategy: consultation",
  "text": "(1) The Fuel Poverty (Targets, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 7 (consultation on strategy)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after “preparing” insert “or reviewing”,\n(b) after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) For the purpose of subsection (2), the duty to consult the persons mentioned in paragraph (a), (c), (d), (e) or (f) may be met by consulting persons who appear to the Scottish Ministers to represent the interests of the persons mentioned in any of those paragraphs.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 71 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 86(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 71 in force at 1.4.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(1)(5), sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/13/section/71",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:53.728990+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."
}