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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/schedule-21/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1973/65",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973",
  "path": "schedule/21/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 2 (definitions) there shall be substituted the following section—\n“ Interpretation.\n2 In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“library authority” for the purposes of this Act means an islands or district council except that within the Highland, Borders and Dumfries and Galloway regions it means the appropriate regional council, and “area”, in relation to such an authority, shall be construed accordingly.\n“museum and art gallery authority” for the purposes of this Act means a regional, islands or district council, and “area”, in relation to such an authority, shall be construed accordingly.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 130(3), 132(2), 134(2), 135(10), 138(2), 146(2)–(9), 147(2)(6)(7)(8), 155(2)(3)(5)(6)(7), 156(2)(3), 166(2), 170(2), 175, 184, 213(3), 237(1), Schs. 16, 19, 21 paras. 2–12 and Sch. 26 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."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": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1973/65/schedule/21/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:46:26.996319+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."
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