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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991-special-parking-area-scotland-order-2003/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2003/508",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Act 1991 (Special Parking Area) (Scotland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991-special-parking-area-scotland-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nParagraph 2(4) of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 provides that certain statutory provisions creating criminal offences for the contravention of parking restrictions are to cease to have effect in a special parking area, while the relevant order under paragraph 2(1) of that Schedule (designating all, or part, of an administrative area outside London a special parking area) is in force.\nThis Order amends paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 3 by adding to the list of offences which are respectively decriminalised therein, the offence of stopping on a part of a road identified as a stopping place for a bus.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/508/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:29.465349+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."
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