{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisionssalaries-and-allowances-order-1999/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1097",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 1998 (Transitory and Transitional Provisions)(Salaries and Allowances) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-transitory-and-transitional-provisionssalaries-and-allowances-order-1999",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Salaries payable to members of the Scottish Executive and junior Scottish Ministers",
  "text": "(1) In addition to any salary payable by virtue of article 4, there shall be payable to the holder of any office specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order a salary at the yearly rate specified in relation to that office in the second column of that Schedule.\n(2) If the holder of the office of Lord Advocate or Solicitor General for Scotland is not a member of the Parliament, the yearly rate specified in relation to that office in the second column of the Schedule shall be increased by the amount of the yearly rate of salary that would be payable to him by virtue of article 4 if he were a member of the Parliament.\n(3) The entries in the Schedule relating to the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland and paragraph (2) shall take effect from the coming into force of section 44(1)(c) of the Act.\n(4) The salary payable by virtue of this article to the holder of any office specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall be payable for the period during which he holds that office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In terms of article 2 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998 (S.I.1998/3178), section 44(1)(c) of the Act comes into force on 20th May 1999."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1097/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:28.907063+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."
}