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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-staff-transfer-scotland-order-1995/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-staff-transfer-scotland-order-1995/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1340",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Staff Transfer) (Scotland) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-staff-transfer-scotland-order-1995",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Content of schemes",
  "text": "(1) Subject to article 2(2) above and to the duty imposed by article 6 below and except in respect of employees of an existing authority specified in paragraph (2) below, a scheme may make provision for the transfer to a new authority of all or any of the persons who immediately before 1st April 1996 are or will be employees of an existing authority.\n(2) The employees specified in this paragraph are—\n(a) those employees transferred to a new valuation authority in accordance with article 11 below;\n(b) those employees transferred to the Scottish Children’s Reporters Administration in accordance with article 12 below;\n(c) those fire and police personnel transferred in accordance with article 13 below;\n(d) those employees transferred to a lead authority for the purposes of superannuation functions in accordance with article 14 below;\n(e) members of the fire brigades maintained in Scotland for the purposes of the Fire Services Acts 1947 to 1959 by fire authorities or, where administration schemes have been made, joint committees for combined areas; and\n(f) those employees transferred to the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Authority by virtue of section 40(2) of the 1994 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1340/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:09:02.537844+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."
}