{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pre-release-access-to-official-statistics-scotland-order-2008/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/399",
  "legislation_title": "The Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pre-release-access-to-official-statistics-scotland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order–\n“the Act” means the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007;\n“the Code of Practice” means the Code of Practice for Statistics published under section 10 of the Act;\n“economic statistics”—\n(a)includes official statistics concerning devolved and local taxes, local government finance, labour productivity, exports, capital and revenue outturn budget estimates, government expenditure and revenue, oil production and gas production; but\n(b)does not include statistics produced by the Scottish Ministers in the exercise of a function which is exercisable by them pursuant to an Order made under section 63(1)(a) of the Scotland Act 1998.\n“market-sensitive statistics” means official statistics which when disclosed would, in the opinion of the person responsible, be reasonably likely to have a significant effect on the value or traded volume of any investment;\n“Northern Ireland Minister” includes a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly appointed as a junior Minister under section 19 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998;\n“official statistics” has the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Act;\n“person responsible” has the meaning given by section 67 of the Act;\n“pre-release access” has the meaning given by section 11(8) of the Act;\n“Scottish devolved statistics” has the meaning given by section 66 of the Act;\n“the UK Statistics Authority” means the Statistics Board (Am Bòrd an Staitistig) established under section 1 of the Act; and\n“working day” means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, a day which is a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 (c. 80), a day appointed for public thanksgiving or mourning, or any other day when the offices of the person responsible are closed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (22.4.2021) by Pre-release Access to Official Statistics (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 11), ss. 2(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.12.2008, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 47."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/399/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:22.122906+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."
}