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Chapter 45 VULNERABLE WITNESSES (SCOTLAND) ACT 2004F1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  1. 45.1Interpretation
  2. 45.2Child Witness Notice
  3. 45.3Vulnerable Witness Application
  4. 45.4Intimation
  5. 45.5Procedure on lodging child witness notice or vulnerable witness application
  6. 45.6Review of arrangements for vulnerable witnesses
  7. 45.7Intimation of review application
  8. 45.8Procedure on lodging a review application
  9. 45.9Determination of special measures
  10. 45.10Intimation of an order under section 12(1) or (6) or 13(2)
  11. 45.11Taking of evidence by commissioner
  12. 45.12Commission on interrogatories
  13. 45.13Commission without interrogatories
  14. 45.14Lodging of video record and documents
  15. 45.15Custody of video record and documents
  16. 45.16Application for leave for party to be present at the commission

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 Ch. 45 inserted (1.11.2007) by Act of Sederunt (Ordinary Cause, Summary Application, Summary Cause and Small Claim Rules) Amendment (Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004) 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/463), {art. 2(13)}

Notes on Schedule First

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 (with appendices 1 and 2) substituted (1.1.1994) for Sch. 1 (with appendix) by S.I. 1993/1956, para. 2, Sch.1.

Sch. 1 (except rule 29.10) excluded (1.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/291, para. 3.24, Sch. 3

Sch. 1 extended (14.2.2000) by S.I. 2000/124, reg. 30(5)

Modifications

C1

Sch. 1 applied (30.11.2016) by Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 21), ss. 121(5), 237(2) (with ss. 232, 234(3), 235, 236); S.S.I. 2016/294, reg. 2

C2

Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Intimation and Service) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/301), paras. 1(2), (4), 2 (with para. 1(5))

C3

Sch. 1 modified (1.12.2025) by Act of Sederunt (Electronic Signature and Electronic Transmission of Documents) 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/302), paras. 1(2), 2(1), 3-5