{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-licensing-scotland-act-2010-commencement-no-6-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2010/article-4",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/413",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (Commencement No. 6, Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-licensing-scotland-act-2010-commencement-no-6-transitional-and-savings-provisions-order-2010",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Savings provision – section 40 (certain sexual offences by non-natural persons)",
  "text": "Notwithstanding the commencement of section 40 of the Act where an offence, under any of the provisions specified in that section, is committed before 13th December 2010—\n(a) by a non-natural person, the penalty which may be imposed is only one which may be imposed as if that section had not been commenced; or\n(b) by a natural person, the penalty which may be imposed cannot exceed the maximum penalty applicable at the time the offence was committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/413/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:52:55.239777+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."
}