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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-administration-offices-order-1999/article-3",
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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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Specification of offices",
  "text": "As from the principal appointed day, the offices which are mentioned in column 1 of the Schedule to this Order and which are established by, or referred to in, the enactment mentioned in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Schedule, are also specified for the purposes of section 126(8)(b) of the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The principal appointed day is 1st July 1999 by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 (Commencement) Order 1998 (S.I. 1998/3178)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1127/article/3",
    "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."
}