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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-competition-scotland-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/197",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-act-1988-competition-scotland-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Application of section 6 – professional services",
  "text": "(1) Section 6 of the Act shall apply to the specified proportion of any specified work falling within a professional service if it is proposed to be carried out by a defined authority on or after 1st October 1999.\n(2) Where a defined authority proposes to carry out any specified work falling within a professional service in the period from 1st October 1998 to 31st March 1999 (inclusive), section 6 of the Act shall apply in that period to one third of the cumulative total of the specified proportions of work falling within the professional services.\n(3) Where a defined authority proposes to carry out any specified work falling within a professional service in the period from 1st April 1999 to 30th September 1999 (inclusive), section 6 of the Act shall apply in that period to two-thirds of the cumulative total of the specified proportions of work falling within the professional services.\n(4) This regulation is subject to regulation 8 below.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
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      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/432",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/446",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1436",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/208",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/947",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1422",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Act 1988 (Competition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/197/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:26:52.367219+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."
}