{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995/schedule-6/paragraph-27",
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  "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/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 72 (citation of jurors and witnesses)—\n(a) the existing provision shall become subsection (1);\n(b) in that subsection, after the word “shall” in the second place where it occurs there shall be inserted “ , subject to subsection (2) below, ”; and\n(c) after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—\n“(2) A court shall not issue a warrant to apprehend a witness who fails to appear at a diet to which he has been duly cited unless the court is satisfied that the witness received the citation or that its contents came to his knowledge.”.",
  "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/27",
    "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."
}