{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-development-agency-act-1975/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-development-agency-act-1975/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/69",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Development Agency Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-development-agency-act-1975",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Power of Secretary of State to give Agency directions.",
  "text": "(1) After consulting with the Agency, the Secretary of State may give the Agency directions of a general or specific character as to the exercise of their functions; and it shall be the duty of the Agency to give effect to any such directions.\n(2) Subject to paragraph 9(3) of Schedule 2 to this Act, when the Secretary of State gives a direction under this section he shall either—\n(a) lay a copy of the direction before each House of Parliament within 28 days of giving it; or\n(b) lay a copy later, but lay with it a statement of the reason why a copy was not laid within 28 days.\n(3) The Agency’s report for any financial year shall set out any direction given under this section during that year.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act except ss. 1, 20, 28, and paras. 1 to 6, 11 to 14, 16 and 17 of Sch. 1 repealed (E.W.S.) (1.4.1991) by 1990 c. 35, ss. 22(1), 23(4), 38(2), Sch. 3, Sch. 5 Pt. II; Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990 Transfer Dates Order dated 1.3.1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 4 extended by Industry Act 1980 (c. 33, SIF 64), ss. 2, 22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/69/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:35:59.439326+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."
}