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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-order-2014/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-order-2014/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1892",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Agency Arrangements) (Specification) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-agency-arrangements-specification-order-2014",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specification of functions",
  "text": "(1) The functions of the Secretary of State under the following provisions are specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998—\n(a) section 2 of the Employment and Training Act 1973, in so far as those functions may be exercised by the Secretary of State to make arrangements for the delivery of services providing for—\n(i) occupational health assessments in relation to persons resident in Scotland who are absent from employment, or at risk of being absent from employment, due to sickness;\n(ii) advice to persons in connection with those assessments;\n(iii) occupational health and related advice;\n(b) section 3 of the Social Security Act 1998, in so far as those functions may be exercised by the Secretary of State for the purposes of, or for any purposes connected with, those services.\n(2) In this article “employment” has the same meaning as in section 13 of the Employment and Training Act 1973.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c.50; section 2 was substituted by section 25(1) of the Employment Act 1988 (c.19) and amended by Part 1 of Schedule 7 to the Employment Act 1989 (c.38) and by section 47(1) of the Trade Union Reform and Employment Rights Act 1993 (c.19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c.14; section 3 was amended by paragraphs 1 and 4 of Schedule 6 and Schedule 8 to the Employment Act 2002 (c.22), paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Pensions Act 2004 (c.35), paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Act 2008 (c.6), section 63 of the Pensions Act 2008 (c.30), section 127 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5), paragraph 21 of Schedule 1 to the Mesothelioma Act 2014 (c.1) and by S.I. 2012/2007."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "The definition of “employment” was amended by Schedule 18 to the Employment Protection Act 1975 (c.71)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1892/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:09:22.903166+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."
}