{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-98",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009/section-98.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2009/25",
  "legislation_title": "Coroners and Justice Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/coroners-and-justice-act-2009",
  "path": "section/98",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "98",
  "heading": "Eligibility for special measures: age of child witnesses",
  "text": "(1) The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (c. 23) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 16(1)(a) (witnesses eligible because under 17), for “17” substitute “ 18 ”.\n(3) In section 21 (special provisions relating to child witnesses)—\n(a) in subsection (8), for “17” substitute “ 18 ”, and\n(b) in subsection (9)(b), for “17” substitute “ 18 ”.\n(4) In section 22 (extension of section 21 to certain witnesses)—\n(a) in the title, for “17” substitute “ 18 ”, and\n(b) in subsection (1)(a)(ii), for “17” substitute “ 18 ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 98 in force at 27.6.2011 by S.I. 2011/1452, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/25/section/98",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:44.377194+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."
}