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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-scotland-act-1973/schedule-7/paragraph-3",
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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/7/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) At a meeting of a council the convener, if present, shall preside.\n(2) If the convener is absent from a meeting of the council, the depute convener shall preside.\n(3) If the convener and depute convener are absent from a meeting of the council, another member of the council chosen by the members present shall preside.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 3 substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 92(69)(a)(b); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 3(2)(3) substituted for para. 3(2) by Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43), Sch. 3 para. 26(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1989/42",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government and Housing Act 1989"
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      "affecting_title": "Local Government and Housing Act 1989"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:33:42.931634+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."
}