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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-charity-appeals-panel-rules-2006/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2006/571",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Charity Appeals Panel Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-charity-appeals-panel-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "—In these Rules–\n“the Act” means the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005;\n“appellant” means a person who appeals to the Panel under section 76 of the Act;\n“Chair” means the person appointed by Scottish Ministers under paragraph 1(4) of schedule 2 of the Act, to be the Chair of the Panel;\n“decision” means a decision of OSCR referred to in section 76(1) of the Act unless the context requires otherwise;\n“direction” means any order or other determination by a Panel other than a decision;\n“hearing” means a sitting of the Panel for the purpose of enabling the Panel to take a decision on an appeal or on any question or matter at which the parties are entitled to attend and be heard;\n“OSCR” has the meaning given in section 1 of the Act;\n“Panel” means the Scottish Charity Appeals Panel constituted under section 75 of the Act;\n“register” means the register of appeals and decisions kept in accordance with rule 20; and\n“Secretary” means the person who provides administrative support to the Panel and includes any person assisting in providing that support.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/571/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:17:07.197446+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."
}