{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-laying-of-reports-order-1999/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-laying-of-reports-order-1999/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1594",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Laying of Reports) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-laying-of-reports-order-1999",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Laying of reports",
  "text": "(1) This article applies where—\n(a) a pre-commencement enactment makes provision for any report to be laid before Parliament or either House of Parliament;\n(b) the report concerns pre-Scottish functions (whether wholly or otherwise); and\n(c) the report is to be laid on or after the principal appointed day.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the report shall be laid before the Scottish Parliament as well as before Parliament or (as the case may be) either House of Parliament.\n(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply in relation to any accounts relating only to a period ending before the principal appointed day or any report on such accounts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1594/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:41:42.893890+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."
}