{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/10",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Languages Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Interpretation: meaning of relevant public authority",
  "text": "(1) The Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 10 (interpretation), in subsection (2)—\n(a) the “and” at the end of paragraph (b) is repealed,\n(b) after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) a post-16 education body within the meaning of section 35 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 2005,\n(bb) Scottish Rail Holdings,\n(bc) Scottish Water, and”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 13 in force at 30.11.2025 by S.S.I. 2025/348, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/10/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:11:55.928534+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."
}