{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995/schedule-6/paragraph-151",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995/schedule-6/paragraph-151.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/20",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/151",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "151",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 453 (prosecutor’s consent to or application for setting aside of conviction) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n(a) at the beginning there shall be inserted “ Without prejudice to section 442(1)(b) or (c) of this Act, ”;\n(b) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) for the words “442(1)(a)(i) or (iii)” there shall be substituted “ 442(1)(a) ”; and\n(ii) after the word “conviction” there shall be inserted “ or sentence or, as the case may be, conviction and sentence (“sentence” being construed in this section as including disposal or order) ”; and\n(c) in paragraph (b)—\n(i) after the word “founded” there shall be inserted “ or the sentence imposed following such conviction ”; and\n(ii) after the word “conviction” in the second place where it occurs there shall be inserted “ or sentence or, as the case may be, conviction and sentence ”.\n(3) In subsection (4)—\n(a) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) after the word “conviction” where it first occurs, there shall be inserted “ or the sentence, or both, ”;\n(ii) the word “and” at the end of sub-paragraph (i) shall cease to have effect;\n(iii) at the end of sub-paragraph (ii) there shall be inserted—\n“; and\n(iii) where the sentence is set aside, pass another (but not more severe) sentence;”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b), after the word “conviction” there shall be inserted “ or sentence, or, as the case may be conviction and sentence, ”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/20/schedule/6/paragraph/151",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:09.867874+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."
}