{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-and-justice-scotland-act-2024/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-and-justice-scotland-act-2024/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/5",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-and-justice-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Offences against children to which special provisions apply",
  "text": "(1) The 1995 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In schedule 1 (offences against children under the age of 17 years to which special provisions apply)—\n(a) in each of paragraphs 1D, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3, 4 and 4A, “under the age of 17 years” is repealed,\n(b) in the heading, “under the age of 17 years” is repealed.\n(3) In section 46 (presumption and determination of age of child)—\n(a) in subsection (5), paragraph (b) and “or” immediately preceding it are repealed,\n(b) in subsection (6), for “17” substitute “18”,\n(c) subsection (7) is repealed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 13 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 38(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/5/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:10.987599+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."
}