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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-7.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/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "General powers",
  "text": "(1) The Commissioner may do anything which appears to the Commissioner—\n(a) to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of, or in connection with, the performance of the Commissioner’s functions, or\n(b) to be otherwise conducive to the performance of those functions.\n(2) Despite the generality of subsection (1), the Commissioner may pay fees and allowances to a person for advice, assistance or any other service only with the approval of the Parliamentary corporation.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/7",
    "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."
}