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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-eu-exit-scotland-amendment-etc-regulations-2020/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-eu-exit-scotland-amendment-etc-regulations-2020/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2020/339",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-eu-exit-scotland-amendment-etc-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Transitional and saving provision: proceedings commenced before IP completion day",
  "text": "(1) This Part does not apply in relation to criminal proceedings commenced before IP completion day or appellate proceedings arising out of such criminal proceedings.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), criminal proceedings are commenced—\n(a) in summary proceedings, on the date of the first calling of the case, and\n(b) in solemn proceedings, on the earliest of—\n(i) the date of the grant of a warrant to arrest and commit,\n(ii) the date of the intimation of a petition,\n(iii) the date of the service of an indictment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 31.12.2020 (in force on IP completion day in accordance with 2020 c. 1, s. 39(1)), see reg. 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See Article 62(1)(g) of the withdrawal agreement and sections 7A and 7C of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/339/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:59:59.412889+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."
}