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  "legislation_title": "Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008",
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  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Short title and commencement",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Scottish Register of Tartans Act 2008.\n(2) The provisions of this Act, except this section, come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order made by statutory instrument appoint.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "S. 18(2) power fully exercised: 5.2.2009 appointed for specified provisions by {S.S.I. 2009/5}, art. 2"
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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