{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1820",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Consequential Modifications) (No.2) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-consequential-modifications-no2-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General modification of enactments",
  "text": "So far as may be necessary or expedient in consequence of section 94 of the 1998 Act, in any pre-commencement enactment or prerogative instrument, and other instrument or document made before the principal appointed day–\n(a) any reference to an order confirmed by Act of Parliament or to an order confirmed by Parliament shall be read as including an order confirmed by an Act of the Scottish Parliament; and\n(b) any reference to an order subject to special parliamentary procedure shall be read as including an order subject to such special procedure as may be provided by or under an Act of the Scottish Parliament or under section 129(1) of the 1998 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.7.1999, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1820/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:23:54.889802+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."
}