{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-commencement-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-commencement-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3178",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-commencement-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed days",
  "text": "(1) All the provisions of the Act, so far as not then in force, shall come into force on 1st July 1999, except the provisions specified in Schedule 5 to this Order.\n(2) The provisions of the Act, specified in column 1 of any of the Schedules to this Order and the subject matter of which is described in column 2 of that Schedule shall, so far as not then in force, come into force on the day appointed in relation to that Schedule in the Table below but, where a particular purpose is specified in relation to any provision in column 3 of that Schedule, that provision shall come into force on that day only for that purpose.\nTABLE\nSchedule\nAppointed day\n1\n25th January 1999\n2\n1st April 1999\n3\n6th May 1999\n4\n20th May 1999\n5\n1st April 2000",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/3178/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:12:29.136284+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."
}