{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1981/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1981/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1981/23",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1981",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-miscellaneous-provisions-scotland-act-1981",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Diminution of powers of officers of court as regards actings for recovery of rates.",
  "text": "In section 247(2)(a) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 (which as regards actings for recovery of rates empowers officers of court to poind, seize and remove or secure property belonging to or in the lawful possession of the debtor) the words “or in the lawful possession of” shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1947 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 1, 5–8, 11, 12, 16, 24–28, 33, 36, 37(1)(2)(3)(4), 38(1), 40, 41, Sch. 1 (a)(b)(c)(i)(ii)(iii)(d)(i)(ii)(e), Sch. 2 paras. 1–10, 12–14, 16–25, 27–34, 37–42, Sch. 3 paras. 2–7, 12–20, 22–24, 26, 28, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39 and Sch. 4 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/23/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:13.424750+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."
}