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  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/45",
  "legislation_title": "Water (Scotland) Act 1980",
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  "number": "17",
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  "text": "(1) Subject to the next following sub-paragraph, the minutes of proceedings of meetings of a board shall be open to the inspection of any local government elector in any part of the board’s area on payment of a fee not exceeding five pence, and any such local government elector may make a copy of, or extracts from, any such minutes.\n(2) The foregoing sub-paragraph does not apply to any part of such minutes which contains information with respect to any manufacturing process or trade secret obtained in the exercise of powers under this Act.",
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:16.376021+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."
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