{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017/schedule-1/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017/schedule-1/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/694",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Partnerships (Register of People with Significant Control) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-partnerships-register-of-people-with-significant-control-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Rights treated as held by person who controls their exercise",
  "text": "(1) Where a person controls a right, the right is to be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as held by that person (and not by the person who in fact holds the right, unless that person also controls it).\n(2) A person “controls” a right if, by virtue of any arrangement between that person and others, the right is exercisable only—\n(a) by that person,\n(b) in accordance with that person's directions or instructions, or\n(c) with that person's consent or concurrence.\n(3) “Arrangement” includes—\n(a) any scheme, agreement or understanding, whether or not it is legally enforceable, and\n(b) any convention, custom or practice of any kind.\n(4) Something does not count as an arrangement unless there is at least some degree of stability about it (whether by its nature or terms, the time it has been in existence or otherwise).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/694/schedule/1/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:10:05.775464+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."
}