{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-statements-prescribed-courts-scotland-order-2003/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-statements-prescribed-courts-scotland-order-2003/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2003/563",
  "legislation_title": "The Victim Statements (Prescribed Courts) (Scotland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-statements-prescribed-courts-scotland-order-2003",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes the sheriff courts of Ayr, Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, and the High Court sitting at Edinburgh and Kilmarnock for the purposes of section 14(1) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003.\nThe effect of the Order is that a victim statement may be made where proceedings in respect of an offence are to be taken or are likely to be taken in one of the prescribed courts.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/563/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:34:06.979314+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."
}