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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2005/16",
  "legislation_title": "Licensing (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/licensing-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Training of Licensing Standards Officers",
  "text": "(1) A Licensing Standards Officer must comply with such requirements as to the training of Licensing Standards Officers as may be prescribed.\n(2) If a Licensing Standards Officer fails to comply with subsection (1), the (or each) council which appointed the Officer must terminate the Officer's appointment.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) prescribing training requirements may, in particular—\n(a) provide for accreditation by the Scottish Ministers of—\n(i) courses of training, and\n(ii) persons providing such courses,\nfor the purposes of the regulations,\n(b) prescribe different requirements in relation to different descriptions of Licensing Standards Officers, and\n(c) require that any person providing training or any particular description of training in accordance with the regulations holds such qualification as may be prescribed in the regulations.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 1.5.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/129, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/16/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:20.073733+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."
}