{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/schedule-7/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980/schedule-7/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/9",
  "legislation_title": "Reserve Forces Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/reserve-forces-act-1980",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A scheme for the establishment of an association in Scotland shall provide—\n(a) in the case where an association area coincides with a local government area or where a local government area contains two or more association areas, for the selection by the Defence Council of the president and vice-presidents of the association from the lord-lieutenants residing in the local government area or from such other persons as the Defence Council may think fit; or\n(b) in the case where an association area falls within two or more local government areas, for the selection by the Defence Council of the president and vice-presidents of the association from the lord-lieutenants residing in those local government areasor from such other persons as the Defence Council may think fit.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7 para. 3 substituted (S.) (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 116(5); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/9/schedule/7/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:50.169605+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."
}