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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/17-18/35",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts and Legal Officers (Scotland) Act 1927",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-and-legal-officers-scotland-act-1927",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Prosecutions at instance of procurator fiscal.",
  "text": "It shall be lawful for the Lord Advocate, . . ., by Order to direct in the case of any Act of Parliament that, notwithstanding anything therein contained all proceedings in the sheriff court under the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts for a contravention of or an offence against such Act of Parliament shall be taken by and at the instance of the procurator fiscal, . . ..",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 repealed (1.7.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 125(1)(2), Sch. 8 para. 3(6), Sch. 9 (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 12 omitted (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1820, arts. 1(2), 4, Sch. 2 Pt. 1 para. 14(3), Pt. IV"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/17-18/35/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:47.769472+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."
}