{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-administration-offices-order-2012/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-administration-offices-order-2012/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/3073",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-administration-offices-order-2012",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order specifies Her Majesty’s Inspector of Constabulary and Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Her Majesty’s Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Assistant Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service as offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices for the purposes of the Scotland Act 1998.\nThis Order also partially revokes the Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 1999 and revokes the Scottish Administration (Offices) Order 2005.\nSection 71(2) of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 sets out the arrangements for appointment to the office of Her Majesty’s inspector of constabulary.\nSection 43A(1)(a) and (b) and (2) of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 set out the arrangements for appointment to the offices of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, Her Majesty’s Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Assistant Inspector of the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, respectively.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/3073/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:10:52.686026+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."
}