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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-support-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001/regulation-18",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2001/50",
  "legislation_title": "The Less Favoured Area Support Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/less-favoured-area-support-scheme-scotland-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Time limit for prosecutions",
  "text": "(1) Summary proceedings for an offence under regulation 16 may be commenced within the period of 12 months from the date on which the offence was committed.\n(2) Subsection (3) of section 136 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (date of commencement of proceedings) applies for the purposes of this regulation as it does for the purposes of that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/50/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:07.461267+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."
}