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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judiciary-and-courts-scotland-act-2008/section-60",
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  "legislation": "asp/2008/6",
  "legislation_title": "Judiciary and Courts (Scotland) Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/judiciary-and-courts-scotland-act-2008",
  "path": "section/60",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service",
  "text": "(1) There is established a body corporate to be known as the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service (referred to in this Part as “the SCTS”).\n(2) Schedule 3 makes further provision about the SCTS.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 60(1) substituted (1.4.2015) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), Sch. 4 para. 1(3); S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Act substituted (2.2.2015 for specified purposes, 1.4.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), Sch. 4 para. 1(2); S.S.I. 2015/12, art. 2; S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 60 title substituted (1.4.2015) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), Sch. 4 para. 1(12)(b); S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 60 partly in force; s. 60 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 76; s. 60(2) in force for specified purposes at 16.3.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/83, art. 2; s. 60(2) in force for further specified purposes at 1.6.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/192, art. 2, Sch.; s. 60(1) in force and s. 60(2) in force for further specified purposes at 1.10.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/318, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 60(2) in force at 1.4.2010 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2010/39, art. 2(b), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2008/6/section/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:44.431271+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."
}