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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/uk-withdrawal-from-the-european-union-continuity-scotland-act-2021/section-42",
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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/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Meaning of “public authority”",
  "text": "In this Chapter, “public authority” means a person exercising any function of a public nature that is not—\n(a) a function of any of the following persons—\n(i) Environmental Standards Scotland,\n(ii) a court or tribunal,\n(iii) the Scottish Parliament,\n(iv) the Parliament of the United Kingdom,\n(v) a Minister of the Crown (within the meaning of the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975),\n(vi) a body to which paragraph 3 (reserved bodies) of Part III of schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998 applies, or\n(b) a function in connection with proceedings in the Scottish Parliament or the Parliament of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 42 in force at 1.10.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/304, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/4/section/42",
    "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."
}