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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2016-commencement-no-5-transitional-and-saving-provisions-order-2017/article-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2017/345",
  "legislation_title": "The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 5, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2017",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Voluntary interviews- transitional and saving provision",
  "text": "Where a person attends at a police station or other place voluntarily for the purpose of being interviewed by a constable, and that interview begins before the appointed day—\n(a) section 31(1), (2)(a) to (c) and (4) and section 32 of the 2016 Act do not apply in respect of that interview;\n(b) section 15A of the 1995 Act continues to have effect in relation to that interview after the beginning of the appointed day as it did immediately before that day.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2017/345/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:16:14.776471+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."
}