{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) There are to be 73 constituencies for the purposes of this Act.\n(2) The constituencies are—\n(za) the existing constituency of Na h-Eileanan an Iar,\n(a) the Orkney Islands,\n(b) the Shetland Islands, and\n(c) the constituencies provided for by an Order in Council under paragraph 6.\n( 3 ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 substituted (22.7.2004 with effect subject to transitional modifications set out in Sch. 2 of the amending Act until \"the appropriate date\", see s. 1(2)(3) of the amending Act) by Scottish Parliament (Constituencies) Act 2004 (c. 13), s. 1(1)-(4), Sch. 1 (however, paras. 3-14 of Sch. 1 as so substituted or as so substituted and modified (as the case may be) have no effect until 30.6.2007, see s. 1(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(za) inserted (4.10.2018) by Islands (Scotland) Act 2018 (asp 12), ss. 18(1)(a), 31(2); S.S.I. 2018/282, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(2)(c) substituted (31.10.2012) by Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), s. 44(5), Sch. 1 para. 8; S.I. 2012/2516, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1(3) ceases to have effect (11.11.2010) by virtue of The Scottish Parliament (Constituencies and Regions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2691), arts. 1(2), 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:08.185252+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."
}