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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prostitution-public-places-scotland-act-2007-commencement-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/382",
  "legislation_title": "The Prostitution (Public Places) (Scotland) Act 2007 (Commencement) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prostitution-public-places-scotland-act-2007-commencement-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force the Prostitution (Public Places) (Scotland) Act 2007 (“the Act”) on 15th October 2007.\nSection 1 of the Act creates new offences of:\nsoliciting in a relevant place (essentially, a public place) for the purpose of obtaining the services of a person engaged in prostitution; and\nloitering in a relevant place where it can reasonably be inferred that the person loitering was doing so for the purpose of obtaining the services of a person engaged in prostitution.\nSection 2 of the Act provides that offences under section 1 are arrestable offences.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/382/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:11:53.841876+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."
}