{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-126.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/126",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Extract convictions.",
  "text": "No extract conviction shall be issued—\n(a) during the period of four weeks after the day on which the conviction took place, except in so far as it is required as a warrant for the detention of the person convicted under any sentence which has been pronounced against him; nor\n(b) where an intimation of intention to appeal or, in the case of an appeal under section 106(1)(b) to (e) , 108 or 108Aof this Act, a note of appeal is lodged, until the appeal, if it is proceeded with, is determined.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 126(b) substituted (20.10.1997) by 1997 c. 48 , s. 18(8) ; S.I. 1997/2323 , art. 3 , Sch. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/126",
    "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."
}