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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-no-2-order-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3250",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) (No. 2) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-no-2-order-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order specifies certain functions of the Scottish Ministers forthe purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998. Section 93(1)allows a Minister of the Crown to make arrangements for any of hisspecified functions to be exercised on his behalf by the Scottish Ministersand allows the Scottish Ministers to make arrangements for any of theirspecified functions to be exercised on their behalf by a Minister of theCrown.\nThe functions of the Scottish Ministers which are specified by thisOrder are those exercisable by the Scottish Ministers under the enactmentsspecified in the Schedules to this Order, which are statutory and nonstatutory functions relating to monitoring air quality, functions relatingto sulphur sampling of gas, oil and heavy fuel oil and functions as regardspowers of entry under regulation 5 of the Sulphur Content of Liquid Fuels(Scotland) Regulations 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3250/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:09:05.937985+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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