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  "legislation_title": "The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 3, Saving, Transitional Provision and Revocation) Order 2014",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "(1) Subject to articles 4 and 5, the appointed day is 16th December 2014 for the provisions of the 2014 Act specified in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order (the subject matter of which is described in column 2 of the Schedule).\n(2) Where a purpose is specified in column 3 of the Schedule in relation to any provision, the provision comes into force on 16th December 2014 for that purpose only.",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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