{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997.json",
  "id": "uksi/1997/1939",
  "title": "The Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval (Scotland) Order 1997",
  "short_title": "Electronic Fingerprinting etc. Device Approval 1997",
  "long_title": "This Order approves the device known as the Digital Biometrics Incorporation (DBI) Tenprinter 1133S, with palmprint option, for the purpose of creating such records as are mentioned in paragraph (d) of section 18(7A) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (records of a person’s skin on an external part of the body).",
  "citation": "S.I. 1997/1939",
  "type": "uksi",
  "year": "1997",
  "number": "1939",
  "version": "current",
  "date": "1997-08-01",
  "revised": false,
  "valid_from": null,
  "extent": null,
  "unapplied_effects": 0,
  "provisions": [
    {
      "path": "introduction",
      "kind": "introduction",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Introductory text",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/introduction",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/1",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "Citation and commencement",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/article-1",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "article/2",
      "kind": "article",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Device approved",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/article-2",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "signature",
      "kind": "signature",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Signature",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/signature",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "note",
      "kind": "note",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Explanatory note",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/note",
      "extent": null,
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    }
  ],
  "has_text": true,
  "pdfs": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "made_under": [
    {
      "id": "ukpga/1995/46",
      "title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
      "provisions": [
        "section/18"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_made_to": 0,
  "changes_made_to_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/changes.json",
  "changes_made_by": 0,
  "changes_made_by_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/changes/by-it.json",
  "instruments_made_under": 0,
  "instruments_made_under_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/electronic-fingerprinting-etc-device-approval-scotland-order-1997/instruments.json",
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1939",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:42.145075+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."
}