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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-administration-offices-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1127",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-administration-offices-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specification of offices",
  "text": "As from the date when section 44(1)(c) of the Act comes into force, the following offices are specified for the purposes of section 126(8)(b) of the Act (offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices), namely the offices of procurator fiscal and procurator fiscal depute to which appointments may be made under sections 1(2) and 2 respectively of the Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "20th May 1999 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 44(1)(c) of the Act under the Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3178)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1927 c. 35. Section 2 of the Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927 was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58) and sections 1(2) and 2 of the 1927 Act are amended by paragraphs 3(2) and (3) of Schedule 8 to the Scotland Act 1998, with effect from 1st July 1999."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1127/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:59.348449+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."
}