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  "legislation": "uksi/2019/183",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Specification of Functions and Transfer of Property etc. ) Order 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-specification-of-functions-and-transfer-of-property-etc-order-2019",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specification of functions",
  "text": "(1) The functions listed in paragraph (2) are specified for the purposes of section 93(1) of the Scotland Act 1998.\n(2) The functions are—\n(a) the Scottish Ministers’ functions under the 2018 Act;\n(b) the Scottish Ministers’ functions exercisable by or under any order made under the Plant Health Act 1967;\n(c) the Scottish Ministers’ functions under section 44 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 (duties of public bodies relating to climate change);\n(d) the Scottish Ministers’ functions under the Forest Reproductive Material (Great Britain) Regulations 2002; and\n(e) the Scottish Ministers’ functions under the Plant Health (Fees) (Forestry) (England and Scotland) Regulations 2015.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 3 in force at 1.4.2019, see art. 1(2)"
    },
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c.8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2009 asp 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2002/3026."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2015/350."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/183/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:36:38.634459+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."
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