{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-network-2-tourist-board-scheme-order-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-network-2-tourist-board-scheme-order-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/397",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Network 2 Tourist Board Scheme Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-network-2-tourist-board-scheme-order-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes a scheme for the establishment of a new area tourist board for the local government areas of Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Moray, Angus, Dundee City, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dumbarton and Clydebank, Falkirk and Stirling, Highland, Fife, the Orkney Islands, Perthshire and Kinross, the Shetland Islands, and the Western Isles (“the Board”.) The Board is to be called “the Scottish Network 2 Tourist Board”.\nThe following existing tourist boards for these areas shall be wound up with effect from 1st April 2005:\nThe Aberdeen and Grampian Tourist Board\nThe Angus and City of Dundee Tourist Board\nThe Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs Tourist Board\nThe Highlands and Islands Tourist Board\nThe Kingdom of Fife Tourist Board\nThe Orkney Tourist Board The Perthshire Tourist Board\nThe Shetland Tourist Board\nThe Western Isles Tourist Board\nArticle 3 provides that the scheme set out in the Schedule to the Order shall have effect from 1st April 2005, but provides that the scheme shall have effect from the date of coming into force of the Order, namely 1st December 2004 in relation to–\n(a) the constitution of the Board;\n(b) the carrying out by the Board of any functions necessary to bring the scheme into operation on that date; and\n(c) any functions necessary to wind up the existing boards on 1st April 2005.\nThe scheme deals with–\nThe membership of the Board and the controlling body of the Board\nThe Proceedings of the Board\nThe Board’s duty to keep accounting records\nAdditional functions and powers of the Board\nConditions on which the Board may be a member of a company\nThe staff employed by the Board and the transfer of the staff employed by the existing tourist boards to the employment of the Board\nThe transfer of the property, rights and liabilities of the existing boards to the Board\nThe revocation of the Orders establishing the existing boards.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/397/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:29:47.054548+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."
}