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List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2024
Entity authorityQ131152296 ↗
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This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland, which was in existence until 1707.

See also

For acts passed from 1707 to 1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.

For acts passed from 1801 onwards, see the list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

See also the list of acts of the Parliament of England and list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.