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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006/section-63",
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  "legislation": "asp/2006/14",
  "legislation_title": "Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-electoral-administration-and-registration-services-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006.\n(2) Except this section and sections 61 and 62, this Act comes into force in accordance with provision made by order by the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 63(2) power partly exercised: 1.10.2006 and 1.1.2007 appointed for specified provisions and purposes by {S.S.I. 2006/496}, arts. 2, 3, Schs. 1, 2 (with art. 4); 29.1.2007 and 17.2.2007 appointed for specified provisions and purposes by {S.S.I. 2007/26}, arts. 2(1), 3(1) (with transitional provisions in arts. 2(2), 3(2)(3)); 14.1.2008 appointed for specified provisions and purposes by {S.S.I. 2007/566}, art. 2 (with art. 3); 5.1.2009 appointed for specified provisions by {S.S.I. 2008/405}, art. 2; 22.1.2009 appointed for specified provisions by {S.S.I. 2009/2}, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/14/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:08.752556+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."
}