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  "legislation_title": "The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Commencement No. 2, Transitory and Transitional Provisions and Appointed Day) Order 2012",
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  "heading": "Commencement of the 2012 Act",
  "text": "(1) 1st January 2013 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the 2012 Act specified in column 1 of Schedule 1 (the subject-matter of which is described in column 2 of that Schedule).\n(2) Where a purpose is specified in column 3 of Schedule 1 in relation to any provision, that provision comes into force on 1st January 2013 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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