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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lobbying-scotland-act-2016/schedule/paragraph-9",
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  "legislation_title": "Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016",
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  "path": "schedule/paragraph/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 7, the number of full-time equivalent employees a person has is calculated as follows—\n(a) find the total number of hours worked by all the employees of the person in the 28 days ending with the date on which the communication was made,\n(b) divide that number by 140.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
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      "text": "Sch. para. 9 in force at 12.3.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/73, reg. 2"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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