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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provision-order-2006/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/469",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement No. 1 and Transitional Provision) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006-commencement-no-1-and-transitional-provision-order-2006",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Provisions of the Act coming into force on 1st January 2007 (insofar as not already in force)",
  "text": "Column 1 – Provisions\nColumn 2 – purpose\nSection 37 (registration districts and authorities)\nSection 38 (registration offices: opening times)\nSection 39(1)\nFor the purpose of the amendments in section 39(2), (3)(c), (4), (5), (7) and (8).\nSection 39(2), (3)(c), (4), (5), (7) and (8) (registration of births)\nSection 40 (registration of still-births)\nSection 41 (re-registration)\nSection 42(1)\nFor the purpose of the amendments in section 42(2), (3)(a)(iii) and (iv) and (c), (4), (5), (7) and (8).\nSection 42(2), (3)(a)(iii) and (iv) and (c), (4), (5), (7) and (8) (registration of deaths)\nSection 44(1)\nFor the purpose of the amendments in section 44 commenced by this Schedule.\nSection 44(2), (7) and (8) (indexing of registers and provision of registration information)\nSection 44(5) (notice of registration events, provision and sale of information for district registrars, abbreviated extracts)\nFor the purpose of substituting sections 39B, 39C, 39D and 39E of the 1965 Act for sections 39 and 40 of that Act.\nSection 44(6) (form, authentication and admissibility of registration information)\nSection 46 (recording change of name or surname)\nSection 47 (other amendments to the 1965 Act)\nSection 48 (marriages at sea)\nSection 49 (marriage procedure: miscellaneous amendments)\nSection 50 (marriage procedure: electronic communications)\nSection 51 (civil partnership procedure: registrations at sea)\nSection 52(1)\nFor the purpose of the amendments in section 52 commenced by this Schedule.\nSection 52(2)(a) to (c) and (4) (civil partnership procedure: miscellaneous amendments)\nSection 52(6)\nFor the purpose of substituting section 98(1) of the 2004 Act for section 98 of that Act.\nSection 59 (minor and consequential amendments)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49). There is a definition of “the 1965 Act” in section 60(1) of the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14) (“the 2006 Act”)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33). There is a definition of “the 2004 Act” in section 60(1) of the 2006 Act."
    }
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  "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."
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