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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-108",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-108.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/108",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "108",
  "heading": "Non-harassment orders: domestic abuse cases",
  "text": "(1) The 1995 Act is modified as follows.\n(2) In section 234AZA (non-harassment orders: domestic abuse cases), after subsection (6) insert—\n“(6A) Where the offence is one listed in subsection (2)(c)(i) or (ii), the court must, in considering the question of whether to make a non-harassment order in the person’s case (including where the person is sentenced to imprisonment or remanded in custody), have regard to any prior bail conditions imposed on the person preventing contact with the victim.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 108 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 108 in force at 1.9.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/120, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/108",
    "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."
}