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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-scotland-order-2002/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/62",
  "legislation_title": "The Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) (Scotland) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/race-relations-act-1976-statutory-duties-scotland-order-2002",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Race Relations Act 1976 (Statutory Duties) (Scotland) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 13th March 2002.\n(2) In this Order–\n“cross-border public authority” and “Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions” have the meaning given by the Scotland Act 1998;\n“the Race Relations Act” means the Race Relations Act 1976;\n“staff” includes any person treated as an employee for the purposes of Part II (Discrimination in the Employment Field) of the Race Relations Act;\nreferences to “150 full-time staff” are references to such number of staff as would, if the hours they work were aggregated, amount to 150 staff working on a full-time basis;\n“Scottish functions” has the meaning given by section L.2 of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998;\n“education authority” has the meaning given by section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980; and\n“school” has the meaning given by section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 but excluding independent schools and in addition includes a place, other than a school, at which an education authority provides school education for pupils who are under school age, other than such a place at which school education is being provided by a person with whom that authority has, by virtue of section 35 of the Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc Act 2000, entered into arrangements for the provision of that education; where “independent school”, “school education”, “pupil” and “school age” have the meanings given by section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 asp 6."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/62/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:43:02.181460+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."
}