{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-staff-transfer-scotland-order-1995/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-staff-transfer-scotland-order-1995/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Principles to be followed in preparing and consenting to a scheme",
  "text": "It shall be the duty of each existing authority and each relevant new authority in taking any steps in relation to the preparation or approval of a scheme, to take into account—\n(a) the likely staffing needs (so far as identified and communicated to the existing authority) of those new authorities in relation to the services to be provided by them on and after 1st April 1996;\n(b) the interests of the employees of that existing authority and the need to act fairly as amongst them; and\n(c) the need for the scheme, when considered with any other scheme, to be fair as between the employees of that existing authority and employees of any other existing authority whose employees may be transferred to the same relevant new authority under that other scheme.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1340/article/6",
    "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."
}