{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restorative-justice-prescribed-persons-scotland-order-2021/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2021/40",
  "legislation_title": "The Restorative Justice (Prescribed Persons) (Scotland) Order 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/restorative-justice-prescribed-persons-scotland-order-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Criminal Law\nMade 22nd January 2021\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 26th January 2021\nComing into force 24th February 2021\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 5(2) of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 asp 1. Section 5 was amended by S.S.I. 2015/444. This Order is being made under section 5(2) prior to the commencement of that section, in accordance with the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10), section 4."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/40/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:57:47.839520+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."
}