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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-withdrawal-from-the-european-union-continuity-scotland-act-2021/section-14",
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  "legislation": "asp/2021/4",
  "legislation_title": "UK Withdrawal from the European Union (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-withdrawal-from-the-european-union-continuity-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/14",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Ministers' duties to have due regard to the guiding principles",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers must, in making policies (including proposals for legislation), have due regard to the guiding principles on the environment.\n(2) Ministers of the Crown must, in making policies (including proposals for legislation) so far as extending to Scotland, have due regard to the guiding principles on the environment.\n(3) The duties in subsections (1) and (2) do not apply in relation to any policy or proposal so far as relating to—\n(a) national defence or civil emergency,\n(b) finance or budgets.\n(4) In this section, “legislation” includes—\n(a) an Act of Parliament,\n(b) an Act of the Scottish Parliament,\n(c) subordinate legislation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 14(2) excluded (10.5.2022) by Environment Act 2021 (c. 30), ss. 19(5)(6), 147(3) (with s. 144); S.I. 2022/518, regs. 1(2), 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 14 in force at 16.11.2023 by S.S.I. 2023/310, reg. 3(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/4/section/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:00.235346+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."
}