{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-proceedings-act-1947/section-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-proceedings-act-1947/section-51.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/44",
  "legislation_title": "Crown Proceedings Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crown-proceedings-act-1947",
  "path": "section/51",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Application to Scotland of ss. 36 and 38.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Section thirty-eight of this Act shall have effect as if in subsection (4) thereof:—\n(i) there were included a reference to this Part of this Act;\n(ii) for the reference to the Attorney General there were substituted a reference to the Lord Advocate or the Advocate General for Scotland;\n(iii) the proviso were omitted.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 51(1) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1)(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I Gp. 1, Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 51(2)(ii) inserted (20.5.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 125, Sch. 8 para. 7(6) (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(2), Sch. 4"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/44/section/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:51.064242+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."
}