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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-medical-services-victims-of-sexual-offences-scotland-act-2021/section-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-medical-services-victims-of-sexual-offences-scotland-act-2021/section-15.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2021/3",
  "legislation_title": "Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forensic-medical-services-victims-of-sexual-offences-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/15",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Report on operation of Act",
  "text": "(1) Public Health Scotland must—\n(a) as soon as reasonably practicable after the end of each reporting period, prepare a report on the operation of this Act during the reporting period, and\n(b) no later than 2 months after the end of the reporting period to which the report relates—\n(i) lay the report before the Scottish Parliament, and\n(ii) publish the report in such ways as Public Health Scotland considers appropriate.\n(2) In this section, “reporting period” means—\n(a) the period beginning with the day on which section 1 comes into force and ending on 31 March in the following year,\n(b) each of the subsequent 9 periods of one year ending on 31 March.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 15 in force at 1.4.2022 by S.S.I. 2022/24, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/3/section/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:39.490644+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."
}