{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-international-co-operation-act-2003-designation-of-participating-countries-scotland-no-3-order-2009/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2009/441",
  "legislation_title": "The Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Participating Countries) (Scotland) (No. 3) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-international-co-operation-act-2003-designation-of-participating-countries-scotland-no-3-order-2009",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Designation of participating countries",
  "text": "Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ... Israel, Montenegro, Serbia ... and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia are designated as participating countries in relation to the following provisions of the Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003—\n(a) section 31 (hearing witnesses in the UK by telephone);\n(b) section 47 (transfer of UK prisoner to assist investigation abroad);\n(c) section 48 (transfer of EU etc. prisoner to assist UK investigation); and\n(d) paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 (evidence given by television link or telephone).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in art. 2 omitted (31.7.2017) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (European Investigation Order) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/730), reg. 1(1), Sch. 3 para. 13(a) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in art. 2 omitted (6.4.2023) by virtue of The Crime (International Co-operation) Act 2003 (Designation of Participating Countries) (Scotland) Order 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/119), arts. 1, 4(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 comes into force in accordance with art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 48 was amended by paragraph 52 of Schedule 26 to the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 (c.4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/441/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:58:17.204126+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."
}