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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997-commencement-no2-and-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-1997/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2323",
  "legislation_title": "The Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (Commencement No.2 and Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997-commencement-no2-and-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The provisions of Parts I, II, III and VI of the Act which come into force on 1st January 1998",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nProvision of Act\nSubject matter\nPurpose\nSection 6\nDisposal in cases of mentally disordered offenders\nSection 7\nEffect of hospital direction\nSection 8\nRemand of persons suffering from mental disorder to private hospital\nSection 9\nPower to specify hospital unit\nSection 10\nMedical evidence in relation to mentally disordered offenders\nSection 11\nIncrease in maximum period of interim hospital orders\nSection 15\nDriving disqualifications\nSection 22\nAppeal by prosecutor against hospital orders etc\nSection 42\nTesting of prisoners for alcohol\nSection 43\nMedical services in prisons\nSection 44\nUnlawful disclosure of information\nSection 62\nAmendments and repeals\nOnly for the purpose of bringing into force the provisions of Schedules 1 and 3 specified or referred to in column 1 below.\nIn Schedule 1, paragraphs 9(2), (3)(a), (8), (9), (15) and (16), 13(1), (2) and (4), 15, 21(5) to (8) and (35)\nAmendments\nIn Schedule 3, the repeals specified in the Table below\nRepeals\nTABLE\nColumn 1\nColumn 2\nColumn 3\nChapter\nShort Title\nExtent of Repeals\n1984 c. 36\nThe Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984\nIn section 65(2), the words after paragraph (b).\nIn section 70(1), the words “(not being a private hospital)”.\n1989 c. 45\nThe Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989\nIn section 3(1), the words from “including” to the end.\n1995 c. 46\nThe Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995\nIn section 53, in subsection (1), the words “subsection (2) below and”, and subsection (2). In section 63, subsection (1)(d) and in subsection (2)(b)(ii) the words “or (d)”.\nIn section 252(2), the word “and”, in the third place where it occurs.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "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."
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