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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-witnesses-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2014/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/210",
  "legislation_title": "The Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-witnesses-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2014",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014 and comes into force on 13th August 2014.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1995 Act” means the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;\n“the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003;\n“the 2014 Act” means the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c.46."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2003 asp 7."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/210/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:34:11.452960+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."
}