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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-and-legislative-reform-scotland-act-2010-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2011/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/88",
  "legislation_title": "The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/interpretation-and-legislative-reform-scotland-act-2010-savings-and-transitional-provisions-order-2011",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 1999 Statutory Instruments Order” means the Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999;\n“the 2011 Regulations” means the Scottish Statutory Instruments Regulations 2011;\n“the Act” means the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010;\n“pre-commencement instrument”—\n(a) means a document that was a Scottish statutory instrument, within the meaning of the 1999 Statutory Instruments Order, before 6th April 2011; and\n(b) in articles 6 to 12 of this Order, includes a resolution of the Scottish Parliament passed before 6th April 2011 pursuant to either—\n(i) paragraph 10(1) of the schedule to the Interests of Members of the Scottish Parliament Act 2006; or\n(ii) section 3 of the Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009;\n“Queen’s Printer” means the Queen’s Printer for Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1999/1096."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2006 asp 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2009 asp 1."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/88/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:51:04.178514+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."
}