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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-surcharge-fund-prescribed-relatives-scotland-regulations-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2019/282",
  "legislation_title": "The Victim Surcharge Fund (Prescribed Relatives) (Scotland) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victim-surcharge-fund-prescribed-relatives-scotland-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Criminal Law\nMade 10th September 2019\nLaid before the Scottish Parliament 12th September 2019\nComing into force 25th November 2019\nThe Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 253G(3) and (8) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 and all other powers enabling them to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.46. Section 253G was inserted by section 26 of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 1) and section 253G(8) contains a definition of “prescribed” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2019/282/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:06:10.748020+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."
}