{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lord-lieutenants-scotland-order-1996/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lord-lieutenants-scotland-order-1996/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Lord-Lieutenants (Scotland) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/lord-lieutenants-scotland-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) “new local government area” means a local government area created by section 1 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n(b) any reference to a county or burgh shall be construed as a reference to that county or, as the case may be, burgh, as it existed immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n(c) any reference to a district, islands area, region, electoral division (except the electoral division of Nigg) or district ward shall be construed as a reference to that district, islands area, region, electoral division or, as the case may be, district ward as it exists immediately before the making of this Order;\n(d) any reference to the electoral division of Nigg shall be construed as a reference to that electoral division as it existed immediately before the passing of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n(e) any reference in column 2 of Schedule 2 to an area which is named in column 1 of Schedule 1 shall be construed in accordance with column 2 of Schedule 1 and any reference to the City of Glasgow shall be construed as a reference to the new local government area of the City of Glasgow,\nand any reference in this Order to a numbered Schedule is to a Schedule bearing that number in this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/731/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}