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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provisions-order-2002",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions",
  "text": "Subject to the remaining provisions of this Order, the following provisions of the Act shall come into force on the commencement date:–\n(a) in section 2, subsections (1)(a) to (h), (l) and (m), (2) to (4), (5)(a) and (b), (6), (9), (17) to (26) and (28);\n(b) section 2(5)(c) so far as relating to an independent clinic to which article 4(4) applies;\n(c) section 2(7) so far as relating to a child care agency to which article 4(6) applies;\n(d) section 2(10) so far as relating to an offender accommodation service to which article 4(8) applies;\n(e) sections 3, 5(3), 7, 9 to 23, 24(2) and (3), 25 to 27, 31, 32, 33(1)(c) and (2) to (4), 34 to 42, 44 to 51 and 72;\n(f) section 79, so far as relating to the provisions in schedule 3 specified in sub-paragraph (h);\n(g) section 80(1), so far as relating to the provisions in schedule 4 which are commenced by sub-paragraph (i);\n(h) in schedule 3, paragraphs 1 to 3, 4(1) and (3), 5, 6, 7(11)(b), 8 to 19, 21, 23(1) to (6) and 25; and\n(i) schedule 4, except the entries relating to section 94 of and Schedule 2 to the Children (Scotland) Act 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
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