{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-witnesses-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-9-order-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2022/22",
  "legislation_title": "The Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-witnesses-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-9-order-2022",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order commences section 9 of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) on 1 April 2022.\nSection 9 allows a person who is a victim of a sexual offence, to request that any forensic medical examination of them is carried out by a registered medical practitioner of a sex specified by the person.\nThe Bill for the 2014 Act received Royal Assent on 17 January 2014. The following sections of the 2014 Act came into force on the following day: sections 30 (in part), 31 (in part), 32, 33, 34 and 35.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2022/22/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:51:46.167984+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."
}