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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012/section-63",
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  "legislation": "asp/2012/8",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-fire-reform-scotland-act-2012",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Investigations under supervision of Lord Advocate or procurator fiscal",
  "text": "After section 41 of the 2006 Act, insert—\n“Investigations\nInvestigations under supervision of Lord Advocate or procurator fiscal\n41A The Commissioner, when carrying out an investigation in pursuance of a direction issued under paragraph (b) of section 33A, must comply with—\n(a) any lawful instruction given by the appropriate prosecutor who issued the direction; and\n(b) in the case of an investigation carried out in pursuance of a direction issued under sub-paragraph (i) of that paragraph, any instruction issued by the Lord Advocate in relation to the reporting, for consideration of the question of prosecution, of alleged offences.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 Ch. 10 modified (1.4.2013) by The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Supplementary, Transitional, Transitory and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/121), arts. 1(1), 16(1)-(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 63 in force at 1.4.2013 by S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:45.019055+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."
}