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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/schedule/paragraph-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025/schedule/paragraph-23.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/4",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Elections (Representation and Reform) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-elections-representation-and-reform-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/23",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Public Order Act 1986",
  "text": "An offence under any of the following provisions of the Public Order Act 1986—\n(a) section 18 (racial hatred: use of words or behaviour or display of written material),\n(b) section 19 (racial hatred: publishing or distributing written material),\n(c) section 20 (racial hatred: public performance of play),\n(d) section 21 (racial hatred: distributing, showing or playing a recording),\n(e) section 22 (racial hatred: broadcasting or including programme in programme service).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 23 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 73(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. para. 23 in force at 1.8.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/106, reg. 2(1)(b), sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/4/schedule/paragraph/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:00.522426+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."
}