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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/procurement-reform-scotland-act-2014/section-16",
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  "legislation_title": "Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
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  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Joint strategies",
  "text": "A group of two or more contracting authorities may have a joint procurement strategy for both or, as the case may be, all of the authorities in the group.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 18.4.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/30, art. 3 (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:09.509038+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."
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