{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997/section-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997/section-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/14-15/63",
  "legislation_title": "Rag Flock and Other Filling Materials Act 1951 (repealed 6.1.1997)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rag-flock-and-other-filling-materials-act-1951-repealed-611997",
  "path": "section/36",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purpose of the application of this Act to Scotland.\n(2) The expression “defendant” means accused; references to a summons shall be construed as references to a complaint; and for references to the day on which a summons is served and to the day on which it is returnable there shall be respectively substituted references to the day on which a complaint is served and to the day on which the prosecution thereon proceeds to trial.\n(3) The expression “local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994; and the expression “public analyst” means public analyst appointed under section 27 of the Food and Drugs (Scotland) Act 1956.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 36(3) substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 37; S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(b)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1956 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/14-15/63/section/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:18:00.014042+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."
}