{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/section-117",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/section-117.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "section/117",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "117",
  "heading": "Ministers of the Crown.",
  "text": "So far as may be necessary for the purpose or in consequence of the exercise of a function by a member of the Scottish Government within devolved competence, any pre-commencement enactment or prerogative instrument, and any other instrument or document, shall be read as if references to a Minister of the Crown (however described) were or included references to the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Act substituted (3.7.2012) by Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), ss. 12(2)(a), 44(5) (with s. 12(3)); S.I. 2012/1710, art. 2(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 117 modified (15.12.1999) by S.I. 1999/3321, art. 3(2)(a)S. 117 applied (with modifications) (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, arts. 1(1), 6(2)(a), Sch. 5; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3S. 117 applied (15.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3253, art. 5(1) (with art. 6)S. 117 applied (16.6.2000) by S.I. 2000/1563, art. 7(1) (with art. 9)S. 117 applied (with modifications) (15.3.2001) by S.I. 2001/954, arts. 1(1), 3(1)(3)S. 117 applied (with modifications) (1.11.2001) by S.I. 2001/3504, arts. 1(1), 3(1)(3) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (27.6.2002) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order (S.I. 2002/1630), {art. 3(1)(3)}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (28.3.2003) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/415), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(3) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (10.10.2003) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) (No. 2) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2617), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(3) (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (29.7.2004) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2030), arts. 1(1), 6(1)(3) (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (23.3.2005) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/849), art. 5 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (15.2.2006) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/304), arts. 1(1), 4 (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (13.3.2006) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) (No. 2) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1040), arts. 1(1), 5 (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (16.12.2006) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) (No. 3) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3258), arts. 1(1), 4(1)(3) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (1.10.2007) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Cross-Border Public Authorities) (Traffic Commissioner for the Scottish Traffic Area) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2139), art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C11",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (12.10.2007) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2915), arts. 1(1), 5(1)(3) (with art. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (10.7.2008) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1776), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C13",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (6.11.2014) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/2918), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C14",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (20.3.2015) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Modification of Schedules 4 and 5 and Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/692), arts. 2, 7(1) (with art. 7(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C15",
      "text": "S. 117 excluded (5.9.2016) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 33(2), 72(4)(b); S.I. 2016/759, reg. 3(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C16",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (E.W.S.) (9.2.2018) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Insolvency Functions) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/174), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C17",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (with modifications) (23.5.2019) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/964), arts. 1(2), 4(1) (with art. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C18",
      "text": "S. 117 applied (12.3.2020) by The Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc.) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/276), arts. 1(2), 5"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/section/117",
    "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."
}