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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-governance-scotland-act-2004-commencement-no-4-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/25",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-governance-scotland-act-2004-commencement-no-4-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Section 9 (eligibility for membership: politically restricted posts) of the Act shall come into force on 28th February 2007.\n(2) Section 1 (electoral wards), section 2 (single transferable vote), section 4(5)(d), (e), (g) and (h) (reviews of electoral arrangements), section 5 (consequential amendments and repeals) and section 10 (prohibitions on appointment of councillors and ex-councillors to local authority posts) of the Act shall come into force on 2nd May 2007.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/25/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:16:21.398744+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."
}