{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-statutory-instruments-regulations-2011/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-statutory-instruments-regulations-2011/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/195",
  "legislation_title": "The Scottish Statutory Instruments Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-statutory-instruments-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Citation of instruments",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to any other mode of citation, any instrument may be cited—\n(a) by its title; or\n(b) as “S.S.I. [Year]/[Number]” (for example S.S.I. 2011/1), where—\n[Year] is the calendar year of the series to which the instrument has been allocated; and\n[Number] is the number assigned to the instrument under regulation 3.\n(2) An instrument may continue to be cited by the title authorised by any enactment despite the revocation of that enactment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2011) by The Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Savings and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/88), arts. 1, 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 6.4.2011, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/195/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:49:43.462779+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."
}