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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1350",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Members' Interests) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-members-interests-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Gifts",
  "text": "(1) Where a member or his spouse or cohabitee or a company in which the member has a controlling interest or a partnership of which the member is a partner, receives–\n(a) a gift of heritable or moveable property; or\n(b) a gift of a benefit in kind,\nthe value of which, at the date on which it was received by the member or his spouse or cohabitee or the company or partnership, as the case may be, exceeds £250.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the costs of travel and subsistence in connection with the member’s attendance at a conference or meeting where those costs are borne in whole or in part by the organiser of the conference or by one of the other parties attending the meeting, as the case may be.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “controlling interest” means, in relation to a company, shares carrying in the aggregate more than half of the voting rights exercisable at general meetings of the company.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1350/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:25.187868+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."
}