{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-advice-and-assistance-summary-criminal-proceedings-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-advice-and-assistance-summary-criminal-proceedings-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2022/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2022/9780111055137",
  "legislation_title": "The Advice and Assistance (Summary Criminal Proceedings) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-advice-and-assistance-summary-criminal-proceedings-miscellaneous-amendment-scotland-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Regulations 2003",
  "text": "In regulation 6 (summary criminal proceedings) of the Advice and Assistance (Assistance by Way of Representation) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 for sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(c) in relation to any diet (including ancillary work prior to that diet) in a case in which no plea has previously been tendered, where—\n(i) at the diet a plea of guilty to the charges against the accused is tendered, or a plea of guilty to part thereof which partial plea is accepted by the prosecutor, and thereafter until the case has been finally disposed of;\n(ii) at the diet the prosecutor accepts a plea of not guilty to the charges to the effect that the case is then concluded; or\n(iii) prior to calling the case at that diet the prosecutor accepts a plea of not guilty to the charges or otherwise makes a final determination that the case is not to proceed whether at that time or thereafter, and does not call the case at that diet;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2003/179, relevant amending instruments are S.S.I. 2008/251 and S.S.I. 2014/366."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2022/9780111055137/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:30:10.364463+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."
}