{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-of-criminal-responsibility-scotland-act-2019/section-49",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-of-criminal-responsibility-scotland-act-2019/section-49.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2019/7",
  "legislation_title": "Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/age-of-criminal-responsibility-scotland-act-2019",
  "path": "section/49",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Right not to answer questions",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where an investigative interview of a child is authorised—\n(a) by virtue of section 40(2), or\n(b) by a child interview order made in respect of the child.\n(2) The child is under no obligation to say anything during the investigative interview.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 4 applied (with modifications) (17.12.2021) by 2004 c. 20, s. 56B (as inserted by The Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1458), arts. 1(1), 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 4 applied (with modifications) (17.12.2021) by 1987 c. 4, s. 2E (as inserted by The Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1458), arts. 1(1), 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. 4 applied (with modifications) (17.12.2021) by 2003 c. 20, s. 31B (as inserted by The Age of Criminal Responsibility (Scotland) Act 2019 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1458), arts. 1(1), 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 49 in force at 17.12.2021 by S.S.I. 2021/449, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/7/section/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:03.227387+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."
}