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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-use-classes-scotland-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/3061",
  "legislation_title": "The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/town-and-country-planning-use-classes-scotland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, the following expressions have the meanings assigned to them:–\n“care” means personal care including the provision of appropriate help with physical and social needs or support; and in class 8 (residential institutions) includes medical care and treatment;\n“class” means a class specified in the Schedule to this Order;\n“day centre” means non-residential premises which are used for social purposes, recreation, rehabilitation or occupational training and at which care is also provided;\n“industrial process” means a process, other than a process carried out in or adjacent to, a mine or quarry, for or incidental to–\n(a) the making of any article or part of any article including a ship or vessel or a film, video or sound recording;\n(b) the altering, repairing, maintaining, ornamenting, finishing, cleaning, washing, packing, canning, adapting for sale, breaking up or demolition of any article; or\n(c) the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals,\nin the course of any use other than agriculture;\n“site” means the whole area of land within a single unit of occupation;\n“support” means counselling or other help provided as part of a planned programme of care.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in force at 2.2.1998, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/3061/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:39:51.205872+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."
}