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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-5/part-II/crossheading-head-b-home-affairs",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-5/part-II/crossheading-head-b-home-affairs.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/5/part/II/crossheading/head-b-home-affairs",
  "kind": "crossheading",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Head B – Home Affairs",
  "text": "Public access to information held by public bodies or holders of public offices (including government departments and persons acting on behalf of the Crown).\nException\nInformation held by–\n(a)the Parliament,\n(b)any part of the Scottish Administration,\n(c)the Parliamentary corporation,\n(d)any Scottish public authority with mixed functions or no reserved functions,\nunless supplied by a Minister of the Crown or government department and held in confidence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 Pt. II Section B13 inserted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1749, arts. 1, 5; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/schedule/5/part/II/crossheading/head-b-home-affairs",
    "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."
}