{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/schedule-1/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 12 (restrictions for legal professional privilege) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), after “order” insert “ in England and Wales or Northern Ireland ”.\n(3) After subsection (4) insert—\n“(4A) A serious crime prevention order in Scotland may not require a person to breach any duty of confidentiality of communications which the person could not be required to breach in proceedings before the appropriate court.”\n(4) In subsection (5), for “subsection (1) does not” substitute “ subsections (1) and (4A) do not ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 12 in force at 1.3.2016 by S.I. 2016/148, reg. 3(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/schedule/1/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:05.371498+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."
}