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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-for-scotland-act-1887/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-for-scotland-act-1887/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/50-51/52",
  "legislation_title": "Secretary for Scotland Act 1887",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-for-scotland-act-1887",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to amend the Secretary for Scotland Act 1885.\n[16th September 1887]",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act explained by Secretary for Scotland Act 1889 (c. 16), s. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Preamble omitted under authority of Statute Law Revision Act 1908 (c. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act explained by National Heritage (Scotland) Act 1985 (c.16, SIF 78), s. 20(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act modified by Legal Aid (Scotland) Act 1986 (c.47, SIF 77:2), s. 1, Sch. 1 para. 2(4) and by Dockyard Services Act 1986 (c.52, SIF 58), s. 3(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Act applied (S.) (prosp.) by Local Government Act 1992 (c. 14), ss. 111(9), 119(2) (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Act applied (S.) (1.4.1992) by Valuation and Rating (Scotland) Act 1956 (c. 60), s. 22(3) (as substituted by Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), s. 117(1), Sch. 13, para. 10 (with s. 118(1)(2)(4))); S.I. 1992/818, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Act wholly in force at 1.11.1887 by s. 4 (now repealed)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
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