{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisions-statutory-instruments-order-1999/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Printing and sale",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), as soon as possible after the Queen’s Printer has allocated and numbered any Scottish statutory instrument in accordance with article 5(2), copies of it shall be printed and sold by, or under the authority of, the Queen’s Printer.\n(2) A Scottish statutory instrument which is classified as a local instrument in accordance with article 6 shall be exempt from the requirements in paragraph (1), unless–\n(a) the Presiding Officer otherwise directs in any particular case; or\n(b) the responsible authority requests the Queen’s Printer, when sending her the instrument, to comply with those requirements.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 7(1) applied (S.) (1.9.2009) by Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (asp 1), ss. 3(4), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in force at 6.5.1999 for specified purposes, see art. 1(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Art. 7 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/7",
    "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."
}