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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-genital-mutilation-scotland-act-2005/section-2",
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  "legislation": "asp/2005/8",
  "legislation_title": "Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prohibition-of-female-genital-mutilation-scotland-act-2005",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modification of section 1",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by order modify section 1 so as to—\n(a) add or remove an action to or from those actions for the time being listed in subsection (2) of that section;\n(b) vary an action for the time being listed in that subsection;\n(c) add an action to those for the time being listed in subsection (4) of that section and, in relation to that action, define “approved persons”;\n(d) remove an action added under paragraph (c) and any related definition of “approved persons”; or\n(e) vary—\n(i) an action added under paragraph (c); or\n(ii) any related definition of “approved persons”.\n(2) An order under this section is to be made by statutory instrument.\n(3) No such order is to be made unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/8/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:25.831990+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."
}