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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-etc-scotland-act-2005-commencement-no-3-order-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/545",
  "legislation_title": "The Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-etc-scotland-act-2005-commencement-no-3-order-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "The sections of the Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 specified in column 1 of the table below shall come into force on the relevant date specified in column 2.\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nProvisions to be commenced\nCommencement date\nSection 10(3) (but only for the purpose of enabling the Scottish Ministers to specify such persons as described in that section) and section 21(13)\n1st December 2006\nSection 3 (insofar as not already commenced), section 5 (insofar as not already commenced), section 10(1)(a), (2)(a), (3) (insofar as not already commenced), (4) to (10), (11)(c) and (d) and (12) to (14), section 11 and section 21(6)\n2nd April 2007",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/545/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."
}