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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004/article-2n1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/100",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001 (Commencement No. 5 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulation-of-care-scotland-act-2001-commencement-no-5-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/2n1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Commencement of provisions of the Act",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act shall come into force on 1st April 2004:–\n(a) section 2, subsections (1)(i), and (j), (10) (so far as not already in force) and (11) to (15);\n(b) section 5, subsection (4);\n(c) section 33, subsection (1) (so far as not already in force);\n(d) section 79, so far as relating to the provisions in Schedule 3 specified in sub paragraph (e) below;\n(e) in Schedule 3, paragraph 4(2), 7(1) to (10), (11) (so far as not already in force) and paragraph 22(b) and (c);\n(f) Section 80, subsection (1), so far as relating to the provisions in Schedule 4 specified in sub-paragraph (g) below; and\n(g) in Schedule 4, 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": "Section 2(10) was brought partially into force on 1st April 2002 by S.S.I. 2002/162."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 33(1)(c) was brought into force on 1st April 2002 by S.S.I. 2002/162."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph 7(11) (b) of Schedule 3 was brought into force on 1st April 2002 by S.S.I. 2002/162."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1995 c. 36."
    }
  ],
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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."
}