{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourism-overseas-promotion-scotland-act-1984/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourism-overseas-promotion-scotland-act-1984/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/4",
  "legislation_title": "Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Act 1984.",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourism-overseas-promotion-scotland-act-1984",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Power of the Scottish Tourist Board to engage outside the UK in the promotion of tourism in Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3) of section 2 of the Development of Tourism Act 1969, the powers of VisitScotland under the other provisions of section 2 of that Act shall include the power to carry on any activities outside the United Kingdom for the purpose of encouraging people to visit Scotland.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Nothing in this section shall—\n(a) affect the power of the British Tourist Authority to carry on any activities outside the United Kingdom for the purpose of encouraging people to visit Scotland; or\n(b) prevent VisitScotland from acting on behalf of the Authority as mentioned in section 2(3) of the Development of Tourism Act 1969.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 1(1) substituted (E.W.S.) (29.3.2007 in relation to E.W., 1.4.2007 in relation to S.) by Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1103), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 4(a); Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 15), s. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(a); S.S.I. 2007/47, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1(2) repealed (1.7.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 125, Sch. 8 para. 21, Sch. 9 (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, arts. 2(1), 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 1(3)(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (29.3.2007 in relation to E.W., 1.4.2007 in relation to S.) by Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1103), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 4(b); Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 15), s. 5(1), Sch. 2 para. 4(b); S.S.I. 2007/47, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1969 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1969 c. 51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/4/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:04:36.146569+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."
}