{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-75",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-75.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/10",
  "legislation_title": "Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/75",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "75",
  "heading": "Assessment orders: amendment of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "text": "The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 46) is amended as follows—\n(a) in section 144 (procedure at first diet)—\n(i) in subsection (1), after “section 145” insert “ or 145ZA ”,\n(ii) in subsection (9), after “section 145” insert “ , 145ZA ”,\n(b) after section 145 insert—\n“Adjournment where assessment order made at first calling\n145ZA Where the accused is present at the first calling of a case in a summary prosecution the court may, where it makes an assessment order in respect of the accused, adjourn the case under this section for a period not exceeding 28 days without calling on the accused to plead to any charge against him; and the court may so adjourn the case for a further period not exceeding 7 days.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 75 in force at 30.6.2007 by S.S.I. 2007/334, art. 2(a), Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/10/section/75",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:56.603628+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."
}