{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-modification-of-functions-order-1999/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-modification-of-functions-order-1999/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1756",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Functions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-modification-of-functions-order-1999",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "So far as a function of a Minister of the Crown to which articles 3 to 5 do not apply–\n(a) under the Sea Fisheries Acts,\n(b) under any enactment relating to aquaculture, fish health or fish disease,\n(c) under assimilated law, or to which section 53(2)(a) of the 1998 Act applies, relating to fishing or aquaculture or fishing or aquaculture products,\nis exercisable in or as regards Scotland it may be exercised separately.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 6(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1272), regs. 1(3), 3(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 6 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.7.1999 in accordance with, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1756/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:30:07.567658+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."
}