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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-valuation-bands-for-improvement-and-repairs-grants-scotland-order-1996/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-valuation-bands-for-improvement-and-repairs-grants-scotland-order-1996/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/741",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Valuation Bands for Improvement and Repairs Grants) (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-valuation-bands-for-improvement-and-repairs-grants-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "HOUSING, SCOTLAND\nMade 8th March 1996\nLaid before Parliament 11th March 1996\nComing into force 1st April 1996\nThe Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 240(2)(c) and (4) and 248(5) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1987 c. 26; section 240 was amended by the Council Tax (Amendment of Housing (Scotland) Act 1987) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/631); section 248(5) applies section 240 to repairs grants and is amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43), Schedule 7, paragraph 14 and Schedule 8, paragraph 6 and by the Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (c. 28) section 157(4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/741/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."
}