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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1098",
  "legislation_title": "The Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-public-order-and-criminal-justice-scotland-act-2006-consequential-provisions-and-modifications-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n(a) “the Act” means the Police, Public Order and Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2006;\n(b) “the Agency” means the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency;\n(c) “the Commissioner” means the Police Complaints Commissioner for Scotland;\n(d) “SOCA” means the Serious Organised Crime Agency.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 asp 10."
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/602",
      "affecting_title": "The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/602",
      "affecting_title": "The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted for art. 2(d)",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2013/22",
      "affecting_title": "Crime and Courts Act 2013"
    }
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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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