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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-for-scotland-act-1885/section-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/48-49/61",
  "legislation_title": "Secretary for Scotland Act 1885",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-for-scotland-act-1885",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointment of a Secretary for Scotland.",
  "text": ". . .\nThe Secretary may appoint such permanent secretaries, inspectors, clerks, and other officers as he may with the sanction of the Treasury determine.\nThe salaries of such secretaries and other officers of the Secretary’s office shall be fixed with the consent of the Treasury, and shall, together with such other expenses of the said office as may from time to time be sanctioned by the Treasury, be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words repealed by Secretaries of State Act 1926 (c. 18), Sch."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/48-49/61/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:09.413062+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."
}