{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2003/section-79",
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  "legislation": "asp/2003/7",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/79",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Separation of jury after retiral",
  "text": "It shall no longer be mandatory for the period during which a jury, after retiring to consider their verdict, are enclosed to be continuous; and accordingly, in section 99 of the 1995 Act (seclusion of jury to consider verdict)—\n(a) in subsection (1), for the word “after” there is substituted “ while ”;\n(b) in subsection (2), for the words “until the jury” there is substituted “ while the jury are enclosed and until they ”;\n(c) in subsection (4)(b), after the word “and” there is inserted “ , unless under subsection (7) below the court permits them to separate, ”; and\n(d) at the end there is added—\n“(7) The court may, if it thinks fit, permit the jury to separate even after they have retired to consider their verdict.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/7/section/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:51.376466+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."
}