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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-2012/schedule-1/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/11",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Paragraph 7 is amended as follows.\n(2) For sub-paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) If the Boundary Commission for Scotland have provisionally determined to make recommendations affecting a constituency they must publish in at least one newspaper circulating in the constituency a notice stating—\n(a) the effect of the proposed recommendations and (except if the effect is that no alteration should be made in respect of the constituency) that a copy of the recommendations is open to inspection at a specified place in the constituency, and\n(b) that representations with respect to the proposed recommendations may be made to the Commission before the end of the period of one month starting the day after the notice is published.”\n(3) Omit sub-paragraphs (5) and (6).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 31.10.2012 by S.I. 2012/2516, art. 2(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/11/schedule/1/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:48.797797+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."
}