{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995/schedule-6/paragraph-86",
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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/86",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 254A there shall be inserted the following section—\n“ Convictions not to be quashed on certain grounds.\n254B No conviction, sentence, judgment, order of court or other proceeding whatsoever in or for the purposes of solemn proceedings under this Act—\n(a) shall be quashed for want of form; or\n(b) where the accused had legal assistance in his defence, shall be suspended or set aside in respect of any objections to—\n(i) the relevancy of the indictment, or the want of specification therein; or\n(ii) the competency or admission or rejection of evidence at the trial in the inferior court,\nunless such objections were timeously stated.”.",
  "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/86",
    "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."
}