{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-86",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-86.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/86",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "86",
  "heading": "Clerk of the Sexual Offences Court",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service must appoint a person who holds, or has previously held, a relevant office to hold office as Clerk of the Sexual Offences Court.\n(2) A person's appointment as Clerk of the Sexual Offences Court does not affect the person's appointment to the relevant office.\n(3) A person's appointment as Clerk of the Sexual Offences Court—\n(a) lasts for such period, and\n(b) is on such other terms and conditions,\nas the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service may determine.\n(4) In this section, a “relevant office” means—\n(a) Accountant of Court,\n(b) Principal Clerk of Session,\n(c) other Clerk or officer of the Court of Session,\n(d) Principal Clerk of Justiciary,\n(e) Depute, Assistant or other Clerk in the Justiciary Office of the High Court of Justiciary,\n(f) sheriff clerk,\n(g) sheriff clerk depute.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 86 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/86",
    "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."
}