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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/islands-scotland-act-2018-commencement-no-3-regulations-2020/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/346",
  "legislation_title": "The Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/islands-scotland-act-2018-commencement-no-3-regulations-2020",
  "path": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations bring sections 7 to 10, 11(1) and 12 to 14 of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (“the Act”) into force on 23 December 2020. The Act makes provision for duties of certain authorities in respect of policies, strategies and services, the requirement to report on compliance with duties, the preparation of island communities impact assessments, making regulations about reviews of decisions relating to island communities impact assessments and duties on the Scottish Ministers to have regard to requests for retrospective island communities impact assessments.\nThe Bill for the Act received Royal Assent on 6 July 2018. Sections 1, 2 and 30 to 32 came into force the following day.",
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  "version": "current",
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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."
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