{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993-commencement-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-1993/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2050",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 Commencement, Transitional Provisions and Savings Order 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993-commencement-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-1993",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Savings",
  "text": "Each of the following provisions shall apply only in a case where the trial has commenced on or after the date on which that provision comes into force, for all purposes, by virtue of this Order, namely:–\n(a) section 40(1) of the Act; and\n(b) in Schedule 5 to the Act, sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 1,\nand, for the purposes of this Article and Article 7 below, a trial shall be taken to commence when the oath is administered to the jury.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2050/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:51:55.497039+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."
}