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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-32",
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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/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Scheduling of business in justice of the peace courts",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 61 (efficient disposal of business in justice of the peace courts)—\n(a) after subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) 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(b) after subsection (4) insert—\n“(5) For the purposes of this section, “trauma-informed practice” has the meaning given by section 114 of the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 32 in force at 1.10.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/120, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/32",
    "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."
}