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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-107",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-107.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/107",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "107",
  "heading": "Circumstances in which non-harassment order must be considered by court",
  "text": "(1) The 1995 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 234AZA (non-harassment orders: domestic abuse cases)—\n(a) in subsection (2)(c), before sub-paragraph (i) insert—\n“(zi) an offence to which section 288C applies,\n(zii) stalking,\n(ziii) an offence under section 2 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016,”,\n(b) in subsection (3)(a), for “in any circumstances” substitute “where the offence is one listed in subsection (2)(c)(zii), (i) or (ii)”,\n(c) in the section title, for “domestic abuse cases” substitute “consideration by court in certain cases”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 107 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 107 in force at 1.9.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/120, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/107",
    "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."
}