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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-fees-amendment-scotland-regulations-2010/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/427",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration Services (Fees) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registration-services-fees-amendment-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Registration Services (Fees, etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2006",
  "text": "In regulation 7 (remission of fees), for paragraph (ba) substitute—\n“(ba) these criteria are met—\n(i) remission is likely to promote public knowledge of the registers in respect of which fees are payable under these Regulations;\n(ii) the fee remitted is for—\n(aa) a general search made at the ScotlandsPeople Centre at General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY; or\n(bb) an Internet search; and\n(iii) the search is made—\n(aa) by or on behalf of an association whose objects include genealogy;\n(bb) by or on behalf of a school within the meaning of section 135 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 or at a public library managed by a library authority (within the meaning of section 2 of the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887); or\n(cc) using a discount voucher which has previously been issued by the Register General;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (ba) was added by S.S.I. 2007/531."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c.44; the definition of “school” in section 135 was amended by the Registered Establishments (Scotland) Act 1987 (c.40), section 2(2) and the Standards in Scotland’s Schools etc. Act 2000 (asp 6), schedule 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1887 c.42 (50 and 51 Vict.); the definition of “library authority” in section 2 was substituted by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 5."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}