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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-support-grant-scotland-order-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/171",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-support-grant-scotland-order-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HOUSING\nMade 27th March 2002\nComing into force 1st April 2002\nThe Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 191 and 192 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has in accordance with section 191(9) of that Act, been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 26; sections 191(10) and 192(6) were amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43), Schedule 8, paragraphs 4 and 5 respectively. See section 192(7) of the 1982 Act for the definition of “prescribed”. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46). The requirement to obtain Treasury consent was removed by section 55 of that Act."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/171/introduction",
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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."
}