{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-legislation-procedure-scotland-general-order-1992/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-legislation-procedure-scotland-general-order-1992/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1206",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) General Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/private-legislation-procedure-scotland-general-order-1992",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General Order 1",
  "text": "In General Order 1—\n(a) the definition of “District Fishery Board” shall be deleted;\n(b) in the definition of “provisional order”, for the words “provisional order” there shall be substituted the words “Provisional Order”;\n(c) after that definition there shall be inserted the following definitions:—\n““registered post”shall include the recorded delivery service;\n“River Purification Authority” means a River Purification Board established under section 135 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973() or an islands council;\n“road” shall have the meaning assigned to it by section 107(1) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(”; and\n(d) in the definition of “tramroad”, the words “street or” shall be deleted in each place where they appear.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65; section 135 was amended by the Control of Pollution Act 1974 (c. 40), Schedule 4 and by the Water (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 45), Schedule 9, paragraph 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1991 c. 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1206/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:22:44.546027+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."
}