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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/2",
  "legislation_title": "Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trusts-and-succession-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Resignation of protector",
  "text": "(1) A protector has power to resign office by notice in writing sent to the trustees.\n(2) The resignation takes effect on receipt of that notice.\n(3) But any resignation sent under this section in order to facilitate a breach of trust is of no effect.\n(4) This section applies irrespective of when the trust was created.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 88(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2026/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Trusts and Succession (Scotland) Act 2024 (Commencement No. 2 and Saving and Transitory Provision) Regulations 2026"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/2/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:02.065044+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."
}