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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-meat-scotland-order-2008/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-meat-scotland-order-2008/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/77",
  "legislation_title": "The Quality Meat Scotland Order 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/quality-meat-scotland-order-2008",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Acting through subsidiaries",
  "text": "(1) Quality Meat Scotland may delegate any of its functions to a subsidiary company with the approval of the Scottish Ministers but may continue to carry out any function it has delegated.\n(2) A subsidiary company must carry out the functions that Quality Meat Scotland delegates to it.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 5 in force at 1.4.2008, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/77/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:08:25.248387+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."
}