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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-31",
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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/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Scheduling of business in sheriff courts and the Sheriff Appeal Court",
  "text": "(1) The Courts Reform (Scotland) Act 2014 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 27 (sheriff principal’s responsibility for efficient disposal of business in sheriff courts), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) In carrying out the responsibility imposed by subsection (1), the sheriff principal must have regard to the desirability of doing so in a way that accords with trauma-informed practice.”.\n(3) In section 29 (Lord President’s power to exercise functions under sections 27 and 28), in subsection (1), after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) is prejudicial to the carrying out of the responsibility imposed by section 27(1) in a way that accords with trauma-informed practice,”.\n(4) In section 56 (President’s responsibility for efficient disposal of business), after subsection (3) insert—\n“(3A) In carrying out the responsibility imposed by subsection (1), the President must have regard to the desirability of doing so in a way that accords with trauma-informed practice.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 1.10.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/120, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/31",
    "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."
}