{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-act-2021/section-19",
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  "legislation": "asp/2021/14",
  "legislation_title": "Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-act-2021",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Crown application: criminal offences",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in this Act makes the Crown criminally liable.\n(2) The Court of Session may, on an application by the Lord Advocate, declare unlawful any act or omission for which the Crown would be criminally liable if it were not for subsection (1).\n(3) Subsection (1) does not affect the criminal liability of persons in the service of the Crown.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 19 in force at 1.4.2024 by S.S.I. 2024/82, reg. 2 (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:31.262790+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."
}