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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-scotland-act-2002/section-2",
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  "legislation": "asp/2002/8",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage (Scotland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-scotland-act-2002",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Marriage (Scotland) Act 2002.\n(2) Section 1 of this Act shall come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument appoint",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "P",
      "label": "P1",
      "text": "S. 2(2) power fully exercised: 25.4.2002 appointed by S.S.I. 2002/184, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/8/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:04.469664+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."
}