(1)Subsection (2) applies where an Act of the Scottish Parliament or a Scottish instrument refers to—
(a)an Act of Parliament by year, statute, session or chapter, or
(b)a section or other provision or group of provisions of an Act of Parliament by number or letter.
(2)The reference is to be read as referring—
(a)in the case of Acts of Parliament included in any revised edition of the statutes printed by authority, to that edition,
(b)in the case of Acts of Parliament not so included but included in the edition prepared under the direction of the Record Commission, to that edition,
(c)in any other case, to the Acts of Parliament printed by the Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament, or under the superintendence or authority of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.