{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1096",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions) (Statutory Instruments) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Classification",
  "text": "(1) The responsible authority shall, on sending a Scottish statutory instrument to the Queen’s Printer, certify it as local or general according to its subject matter and, unless the Presiding Officer otherwise directs, the instrument shall be classified accordingly.\n(2) Unless there are special reasons to the contrary in any particular case, a Scottish statutory instrument which is in the nature of a local and personal or private Act shall be classified as local, and a Scottish statutory instrument which is in the nature of a public general Act shall be classified as general.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 6.5.1999 for specified purposes, see art. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 1.7.1999 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1096/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:29.066730+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."
}