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  "legislation_title": "Regulatory Reform (Scotland) Act 2014",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act of the Scottish Parliament to enable provision to be made for the purpose of promoting regulatory consistency; to make provision in relation to primary authorities; to enable provision to be made, and to make provision, as respects regulatory activities, and offences, relating to the environment; to make provision about regulatory functions relating to marine licensing, planning and street traders' licences; and for connected purposes.\nThe Bill for this Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed by the Parliament on 16th January 2014 and received Royal Assent on 19th February 2014",
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      "text": "Act excluded (1.4.2015) by Landfill Tax (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 2), ss. 12(4), 43(2) (with s. 42); S.S.I. 2015/109, art. 2 (with art. 3)"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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