{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015/section-17.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/9",
  "legislation_title": "Serious Crime Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2015",
  "path": "section/17",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Compliance orders: appeals by prosecutor",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 108 (Lord Advocate's right of appeal in solemn proceedings)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after paragraph (cc) insert—\n“(cd) a decision under section 97B(2) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to make or not to make a compliance order;”;\n(b) in subsection (2)(b)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (ii), for “or (cc)” substitute “ , (cc) or (cd) ”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (iii), after “paragraph” insert “ (cd) or ”.\n(3) In section 175 (right of appeal in summary proceedings)—\n(a) in subsection (4), after paragraph (cc) insert—\n“(cd) a decision under section 97B(2) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to make or not to make a compliance order;”;\n(b) in subsection (4A)(b)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (ii), for “or (cc)” substitute “ , (cc) or (cd) ”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (iii), after “paragraph” insert “ (cd) or ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 17 in force at 1.3.2016 by S.S.I. 2016/11, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/9/section/17",
    "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."
}