{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-100",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-100.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2025/12",
  "legislation_title": "Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/100",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "100",
  "heading": "Exception to rule against double jeopardy in the Sexual Offences Court: new evidence",
  "text": "(1) The Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 4 (new evidence)—\n(a) in subsection (1), after “High Court” insert “or the Sexual Offences Court”,\n(b) in subsection (3)(b)(ii), after “High Court” insert “or, as the case may be, the Sexual Offences Court”.\n(3) In section 9(2) (plea in bar of trial: nullity of previous trial)—\n(a) before paragraph (a) insert—\n“(za) the Sexual Offences Court,”,\n(b) in the closing words, before “sheriff” insert “Judge of the Sexual Offences Court,”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 100 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/100",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:38:41.807774+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."
}