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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-witnesses-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-6-order-2020/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2020/237",
  "legislation_title": "The Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-witnesses-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-6-order-2020",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Day appointed",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 25 August 2020 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 25 of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014.\n(2) Paragraph (1) brings section 25 into force only for the purpose of inserting section 253B into the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 to enable an order to be made under section 253B(5) or (6) of that Act (as so inserted).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1995 c. 46."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/237/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:01:14.627796+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."
}