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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008/section-46",
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  "legislation": "asp/2008/5",
  "legislation_title": "Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-health-etc-scotland-act-2008",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Authorised steps",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a quarantine order;\n(b) a short term detention order; or\n(c) an exceptional detention order,\nis made, the steps which the order may authorise are the steps mentioned in subsection (2).\n(2) Those steps are—\n(a) disinfection;\n(b) disinfestation; and\n(c) decontamination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 46 in force at 1.10.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/319, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/5/section/46",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:45.653037+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."
}