{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-124",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-124.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/124",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124",
  "heading": "Finality of proceedings and Secretary of State’s reference.",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Part or Part XA of this Act shall affect the prerogative of mercy.\n(2) Subject to Part XA and section 288AA of this Act and paragraph 13(a) of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998, every interlocutor and sentence pronounced by the High Court under this Part of this Act shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review by any court whatsoever and , except for the purposes of ... an appeal under section 288AA of this Act or paragraph 13(a) of that Schedule, it shall be incompetent to stay or suspend any execution or diligence issuing from the High Court under this Part of this Act.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(1) inserted (1.4.1999) by 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1), Sch. 1 para. 21(18)(a); S.I. 1999/652, art. 2, Sch. (subject to savings and transitional provisions in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(2) substituted (1.4.1999) by 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1), Sch. 1 para. 21(18)(b); S.I. 1999/652, art. 2, Sch. (subject to savings and transitional provisions in art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(2) substituted (17.1.2017) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 1), ss. 94(a), 117(2); S.S.I. 2016/426, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 124(2): By S.I. 1999/1042, arts. 1(2)(a), 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(6)(a) it is provided (6.5.1999) that after “subsection (3) below” there is inserted “and paragraph 13(a) of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998”"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(2) inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042, arts. 1(2)(a), 3, Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(2) repealed (17.1.2017) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 1), ss. 94(b), 117(2); S.S.I. 2016/426, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 124(2) inserted (22.4.2013) by Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11), ss. 36(11)(c), 44(5); S.I. 2013/6, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 124(3)-(5) repealed (1.4.1999) by 1997 c. 48, s. 62(1)(2), Sch. 1 para. 21(18)(c), Sch. 3; S.I. 1999/652, art. 2, Sch. Table (subject to savings and transitional provisions in art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/124",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:46.035735+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."
}