{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-commissions-and-commissioners-etc-act-2010/section-3",
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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": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Status of Commissioner and Commissioner’s staff",
  "text": "(1) Neither the Commissioner nor any member of the Commissioner’s staff—\n(a) is a servant or agent of the Crown,\n(b) has any status, immunity or privilege of the Crown.\n(2) The Commissioner’s property is not to be regarded as property of, or property held on behalf of, the Crown.\n(3) The Commissioner is, as such, to be regarded as a juristic person distinct from the natural person holding the office.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 3 substituted (1.7.2013) by The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2010/11/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:24.644769+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."
}