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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009/section-5",
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  "legislation": "asp/2009/1",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Commencement",
  "text": "(1) The following provisions come into force on Royal Assent—\nsections 4 and 6\nthis section\nrules 4 and 8 to 11 of schedule 1 (and section 1(1) in so far as it introduces them)\nparagraphs 1, 4 and 9 of schedule 3 (and section 1(3) in so far as it introduces those paragraphs)\n(2) Section 3 also comes into force on Royal Assent (but, during the period before the rest of this Act comes into force, a motion for a resolution under that section may be moved only by a member of the SPCB).\n(3) The rest of this Act comes into force on the first day of the month which follows the month which includes the day falling 6 months after Royal Assent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/1/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:42.892423+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."
}