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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-investigations-scotland-order-2015/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-investigations-scotland-order-2015/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/206",
  "legislation_title": "The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Investigations) (Scotland) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-investigations-scotland-order-2015",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Production orders",
  "text": "(1) The sheriff may, on an application made to the sheriff by the procurator fiscal, make a production order if the sheriff is satisfied that each of the requirements for the making of the order is fulfilled.\n(2) The application for a production order must state that—\n(a) article 3(2) is satisfied;\n(b) the order is sought for the purposes of the external investigation;\n(c) the order is sought in relation to material, or material of a description, specified in the application;\n(d) a person specified in the application appears to be in possession or control of the material.\n(3) A production order is an order either—\n(a) requiring the person the application for the order specifies as appearing to be in possession or control of the material to produce it to a constable for the constable to take away; or\n(b) requiring that person to give a constable access to the material,\nwithin the period stated in the order.\n(4) The period stated in a production order must be a period of seven days beginning with the day on which the order is made, unless it appears to the sheriff that a longer or shorter period would be appropriate in the particular circumstances.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 16.3.2015, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/206/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:07.705583+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."
}