{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-standards-commissioner-act-2002/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-standards-commissioner-act-2002/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2002/16",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-standards-commissioner-act-2002",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Protection from actions of defamation",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 17 omitted (1.7.2013) by virtue of The Public Services Reform (Commissioner for Ethical Standards in Public Life in Scotland etc.) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/197), art. 1, Sch. 2 para. 14 (with Sch. 4 para. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/16/section/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:57.523921+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."
}