{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/10",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Languages Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-languages-act-2025",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Status of the Scots language",
  "text": "(1) The Scots language has official status within Scotland.\n(2) Subsection (1) is given legal effect by the provisions in this Act conferring functions on the Scottish Ministers and other persons in relation to promoting, facilitating and supporting the use of the Scots language.\n(3) Subsection (1) does not affect—\n(a) the operation of any other enactment or rule of law,\n(b) the status of any other language.\n(4) In this Part “Scots language” means the Scots language as used in Scotland.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 33 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 48(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 33 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/33",
    "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."
}