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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-conservatoire-of-scotland-order-of-council-2014/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/268",
  "legislation_title": "The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Order of Council 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/royal-conservatoire-of-scotland-order-of-council-2014",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the 2006 Act” means the Companies Act 2006;\n“the 2016 Act” means the Higher Education Governance (Scotland) Act 2016,\n“the 1995 Order” means the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (Scotland) Order of Council 1995;\n“Academic Board” means the body of persons appointed in accordance with article 19;\n“the Articles” means the articles of association of the Company;\n“the Board” means the Board of Governors for the time being of the Company or the Governors present at a duly convened meeting of the Governors at which a quorum is present, and includes any validly constituted committee of the Governors;\n“the Chair” means the person referred to in article 3(a),\n“the Company” means Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, a company limited by guarantee (registered in Scotland with company number SC 004703);\n“Conflict” means a situation where a Governor has, or could have, a direct or indirect interest that conflicts, or possibly may conflict, with the interests of the Company;\n...\n“Governor” means a member of the Board referred to in article 3,\n“the Institution” means the Company, being an institution designated under section 44 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;\n“the nominated Vice-Chair” means the Vice-Chair nominated under article 5(4);\n...\n“Principal” means the principal, or any person authorised, whether for the purposes of this Order or otherwise, for the time being to act as principal, of the Institution;\n“the Secretary” means the secretary of the Company or any other person appointed to perform the duties of the secretary of the Company, including a joint, assistant or deputy secretary; and\n“student” means a matriculated student of the Institution and includes all persons holding sabbatical office in a students’ association of the Institution (whether or not they remain as students of the Institution during their period of office),\n...",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (28.2.2020) by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (28.2.2020) by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (28.2.2020) by virtue of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (28.2.2020) by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (28.2.2020) by virtue of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 inserted (28.2.2020) by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(f)(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in art. 2 omitted (28.2.2020) by virtue of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Amendment Order of Council 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/3), arts. 1(1), 2(2)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 1.12.2014, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2006 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2261."
    }
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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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