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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-2012-section-25-appointed-years-order-2015/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/2000",
  "legislation_title": "The Scotland Act 2012, Section 25 (Appointed Years) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-2012-section-25-appointed-years-order-2015",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed years",
  "text": "The tax year 2015-16 is appointed under section 25(4) of the Scotland Act 2012 as the last tax year for which Part 4 of the Scotland Act 1998 (power to vary income tax rate) is to have effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c. 46. Section 25(2) of the Scotland Act 2012 repealed Part 4 of the Scotland Act 1998 and subsection (4) of that section provides that the repeal has effect so that the last tax year in respect of which a resolution by the Scottish Parliament under Part 4 can be passed will be the tax year appointed by order under that subsection."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/2000/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:29:27.681288+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."
}