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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lobbying-scotland-act-2016/section-16",
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  "legislation": "asp/2016/16",
  "legislation_title": "Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lobbying-scotland-act-2016",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Clerk's duty to monitor compliance",
  "text": "(1) The Clerk must monitor compliance with the duties imposed by or under this Act on—\n(a) persons who engage in regulated lobbying, and\n(b) voluntary registrants.\n(2) In monitoring compliance the Clerk must have regard to the parliamentary guidance (see section 43).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 12.3.2018 by S.S.I. 2018/73, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2016/16/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:30.432911+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."
}