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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourist-boards-scotland-act-2006-commencement-order-2007/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2007/47",
  "legislation_title": "The Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006 (Commencement) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tourist-boards-scotland-act-2006-commencement-order-2007",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order appoints 1st April 2007 as the day on which the Tourist Boards (Scotland) Act 2006, except section 5, will come into force. Section 5 relates to commencement and short title and came into force on Royal Assent (30th November 2006).\nThe Act renames the Scottish Tourist Board as VisitScotland, increases the maximum number of members of that body, abolishes area tourist boards and makes a number of consequential amendments to enactments.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2007/47/note",
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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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