{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/58",
  "legislation_title": "Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheriff-courts-scotland-act-1971",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Extension of purposes for which Lord Advocate may give instructions to procurators fiscal.",
  "text": ". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "repealed",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Act (except for ss. 2(3), 3(4)) repealed (S.) (1.4.2015 except for the repeal of ss. 31, 35, 36(2)(3), 36A, 36B, 37, 38, 45, 22.9.2015 for the repeal of ss. 31, 37(1)(b)(2A)(2D), 28.11.2016 for the repeal of ss. 35(2)-(4), 36A, 36B, 37(2B)(2C) and the repeal of specified words in s. 38(b)) by Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 18), s. 138(2), sch. 5 para. 6(2); S.S.I. 2015/77, art. 2(2)(3), sch. (with art. 7); S.S.I. 2015/247, art. 2, sch. (with art. 9); S.S.I. 2016/291, art. 2, sch. (with art. 3(1)(2))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/58/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:43.356398+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."
}