{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/section-94",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/section-94.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "section/94",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "94",
  "heading": "Private legislation.",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where a pre-commencement enactment makes provision which has the effect of—\n(a) requiring any order to be confirmed by Act of Parliament, or\n(b) requiring any order (within the meaning of the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act 1945) to be subject to special parliamentary procedure,\nand power to make, confirm or approve the order in question is exercisable by the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53.\n(2) The provision shall have effect, so far as it relates to the exercise of the power to make, confirm or approve the order by virtue of section 53, as if it required the order—\n(a) to be confirmed by an Act of the Scottish Parliament, or\n(b) (as the case may be) to be subject to such special procedure as may be provided by or under such an Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1945 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 94 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.94 applied (14.12.2000) by S.I. 2000/3251, art. 3 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 94(2)(b) applied (1.7.1999) (temp.) by S.I. 1999/1593, arts. 1, 2, 3; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/section/94",
    "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."
}