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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/islands-scotland-act-2018/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/islands-scotland-act-2018/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2018/12",
  "legislation_title": "Islands (Scotland) Act 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/islands-scotland-act-2018",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Number of councillors in wards with inhabited islands",
  "text": "In section 1 of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (electoral wards), after subsection (2), insert—\n“(2A) But, in relation to an electoral ward consisting wholly or partly of one or more inhabited islands (within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018), an order made under section 17 of the 1973 Act may determine that the number of councillors to be returned is either one or two.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 4.10.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/282, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2018/12/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:10.584427+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."
}