{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-procedure-and-evidence-scotland-act-2002/schedule/paragraph-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-procedure-and-evidence-scotland-act-2002/schedule/paragraph-10.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2002/9",
  "legislation_title": "Sexual Offences (Procedure and Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sexual-offences-procedure-and-evidence-scotland-act-2002",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Notice of restriction on conduct of defence: copy complaint",
  "text": "In section 146 (procedure in summary prosecution following not guilty plea), after subsection (3) there is inserted—\n“(3A) Where, under subsection (3) above, the prosecutor furnishes an accused charged with a sexual offence to which section 288C of this Act applies with a copy of the complaint, it shall be accompanied by a notice to the accused—\n(a) that, if he is tried for the offence, his defence at his trial may be conducted only by a lawyer;\n(b) that it is, therefore, in his interests, if he has not already done so, to get the professional assistance of a solicitor; and\n(c) that, if he does not engage a solicitor for the purposes of his defence at the trial, the court will do so.\n(3B) A failure to comply with subsection (3A) above does not affect the validity or lawfulness of any such copy complaint or any other element of the proceedings against the accused.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2002/9/schedule/paragraph/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:02.932661+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."
}