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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1042",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.1) Order 1999",
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  "text": "(1) The Documentary Evidence Act 1868 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2 (mode of proving certain documents)–\n(a) after “officer”, in the first place where it appears, there is inserted “or office-holder in the Scottish Administration”; and\n(b) in paragraph (3), after “officers” there is inserted “or office-holders” and after “officer” there is inserted “or office-holder”.\n(3) In section 5(1) (definition of terms)–\n(a) in the definition of “Government printer”, after “Her Majesty,” there is inserted “the Queen’s Printer for Scotland,”; and\n(b) in the appropriate place there is inserted ““office-holder in the Scottish Administration” has the same meaning as in the Scotland Act 1998.”.\n(4) In the Schedule–\n(a) in the appropriate place in column 1, there is inserted “any office-holder in the Scottish Administration”; and\n(b) in the corresponding place in column 2, there is inserted “a member of the staff of the Scottish Administration”.",
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