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  "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/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Criminal courts: conduct of proceedings",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 305 (Acts of Adjournal), after subsection (1A) insert—\n“(1B) Subsection (1) also extends to making provision by Act of Adjournal for the purpose of ensuring that criminal proceedings are conducted in a way that accords with trauma-informed practice.”.\n(3) In section 307 (interpretation), after the definition of “training school order” insert—\n““trauma-informed practice” has the meaning given by section 114 of the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025.”.",
  "extent": "S",
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 1.10.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/120, reg. 2, sch."
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/27",
    "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."
}