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The Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997 (Commencement) Order 1998

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Statutory Instruments

1998 No. 252 (C. 3) (S.11)

LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SCOTLAND

The Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997 (Commencement) Order 1998

Made

27th January 1998

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11(3) of the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

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1.  This Order may be cited as the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997 (Commencement) Order 1998.

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2.  The Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997 shall, so far as not already in force, come into force on 1st April 1998.

Calum MacDonald

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

27th January 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

In terms of section 11 of the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman and Commissioner for Local Administration in Scotland Act 1997 (“the Act”), the majority of the Act came into force on 21st May 1997. This Order brings the remaining provisions of the Act into force on 1st April 1998. The provisions involved are those specified at section 11(3) of the Act -these all concern removing from the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 references to new town development corporations, following the winding-up of such bodies in Scotland.

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