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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010/schedule-7/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "asp/2010/11",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Parliamentary Commissions and Commissioners etc. Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
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  "text": "(1) The person who, immediately before this schedule comes into force, holds office as the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner is, by operation of this sub-paragraph (and not section 1), appointed as the Public Standards Commissioner for Scotland on the coming into force of this schedule.\n(2) An appointment under sub-paragraph (1) is for a period equal to that for which the person was appointed, or (in the case of an appointment for a second period) last appointed, as the Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner reduced by the time for which the person held that office (or in the case of a second appointment, the time for which that person held that office under that second appointment).\n(3) But—\n(a) sub-paragraph (1) does not operate so as to appoint a person as Public Standards Commissioner for Scotland if that person's previous term of office exceeds eight years, and\n(b) where an appointment under that sub-paragraph would, but for this provision, be for a period which, combined with that person's previous term of office, would exceed eight years, that appointment is to be for a period which, when so combined, is eight years.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (3), a person's “previous term of office” is the period for which the person held office as Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner or, where the person was appointed for a second period, the aggregate of the periods for which the person held that office.\n(5) Despite section 2 and the repeal of section 1 of the Parliamentary Standards Act, a person may, after the coming into force of this schedule, be appointed under that section of that Act as the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner for Scotland for a further period.\n(6) An appointment by virtue of sub-paragraph (5) has effect as if made before the coming into force of this schedule; and the period for which the person is appointed, so far as extending beyond then, has effect only for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "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."
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