{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995-commencement-no2-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-1996/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/517",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1995 (Commencement No.2, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995-commencement-no2-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-1996",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Citation and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1995,\nand, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Order to a numbered section or Schedule is a reference to the section or Schedule bearing that number in the Act and, in article 5 of, and Schedule 2 to, this Order, includes a reference to any related repeal in Schedule 7 to the Act.\n(2) For the purposes of this Order, 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 date on whichever of the following first occurs:—\n(i) the grant of a warrant to arrest and commit;\n(ii) the intimation of a petition;\n(iii) the service of an indictment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/517/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:44.904215+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."
}