{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-2-and-saving-provisions-order-2014/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/212",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provisions) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-2-and-saving-provisions-order-2014",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 and comes into force on 1st September 2014.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1977 Act” means the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Civil Partnership Act 2004;\n“the 2014 Act” means the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014;\n“the GRA 2004” means the Gender Recognition Act 2004.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in force at 1.9.2014, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c.33."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2004 c.7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/212/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:34:09.756549+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."
}