{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-1999/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/737",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Parliament (Letters Patent and Proclamations) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliament-letters-patent-and-proclamations-order-1999",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Form of Letters Patent and proclamations",
  "text": "The form of words to be used–\n(a) in Letters Patent shall be that set out in Part I of the Schedule to this Order;\n(b) in royal proclamations under section 2(5) of the 1998 Act shall be that set out in Part II of that Schedule; and\n(c) in royal proclamations under section 3(2) of the 1998 Act shall be that set out in Part III of that Schedule,\nsubject only to such variations as are necessitated by the circumstances.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/737/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:02.052181+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."
}