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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-scotland-act-1997/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/9",
  "legislation_title": "Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/planning-listed-buildings-and-conservation-areas-scotland-act-1997",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to consolidate certain enactments relating to special controls in respect of buildings and areas of special architectural or historic interest with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Scottish Law Commission.\n[27th February 1997]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act modified (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 24(4), 278(2), Sch. 1 para. 3Act: power to modify conferred (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 2(2), 278(2) (with s. 20)Act restricted (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 41(6), 278(2), Sch. 3 Pt. I para. 1(6)(a) (with ss. 64, 219)Act amended (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 8, ss. 277(9), 278(2)Act amended (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 5, 6(2), Sch. 3 para. 8Act applied (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 1(2), 6(2)Act extended (with modifications) (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/677, art. 2"
    },
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      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act applied (27.4.2006) by Edinburgh Tram (Line Two) Act 2006 (asp 6), s. 73(1) (with s. 75)"
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    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act applied (12.6.2006) by The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/269), art. 4(7)"
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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."
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