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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/robert-gordon-university-scotland-order-of-council-1993/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/1157",
  "legislation_title": "The Robert Gordon University (Scotland) Order of Council 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/robert-gordon-university-scotland-order-of-council-1993",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings respectively assigned to them:\n“Academic Council” means the body of persons appointed in accordance with article 20;\n“the Act” means the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;\n“co-opted membership” means the membership of the Governing Body co-opted in accordance with article 8;\n“core membership” means the membership of the Governing Body appointed in accordance with article 7;\n“Governing Body” means the Governors of The Robert Gordon University constituted and incorporated by the 1981 Regulations and re-named as narrated in article 3;\n“Governor” means a member of the Governing Body;\n“the Institution” means The Robert Gordon University re-named as narrated in article 3, being a designated institution in terms of section 44 of the Act;\n“Principal” means the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, or any person authorised, whether for the purposes of this Order or otherwise, for the time being to act as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the Institution and “Vice-Principal” shall be construed accordingly;\n“the 1981 Regulations” means The Central Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1981;\n“the 1988 Regulations” means The Central Institutions (Scotland) Regulations 1988.\n(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a numbered article, Part or Schedule shall be construed as a reference to the article, Part or Schedule, as the case may be, which bears that number in this Order, and any reference to a numbered paragraph in an article of, or Schedule to, the Order is to be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that article or, as the case may be, that Schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1221 as amended by S.I. 1988/1715 and S.I. 1990/2387."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/1715."
    }
  ],
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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."
}