{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-8-and-saving-provision-regulations-2018/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-8-and-saving-provision-regulations-2018/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/138",
  "legislation_title": "The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 8 and Saving Provision) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/land-reform-scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-8-and-saving-provision-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Saving provision: ballot procedure",
  "text": "The modification made by paragraph 1(3) of schedule 1 of the 2016 Act (right to buy land to further sustainable development: minor and consequential modifications) has no effect in relation to a ballot where a ballotter was appointed under section 51A(1) of the 2003 Act (ballots under section 51 of the 2003 Act: appointment of ballotter, etc.) prior to 27th June 2018.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1 of the 2016 Act is commenced by these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 51A was inserted by section 49 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 (asp 6)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/138/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:58.228273+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."
}