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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vulnerable-witnesses-criminal-evidence-scotland-act-2019/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vulnerable-witnesses-criminal-evidence-scotland-act-2019/section-8.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2019/8",
  "legislation_title": "Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vulnerable-witnesses-criminal-evidence-scotland-act-2019",
  "path": "section/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Vulnerable witness notice: lodging deadline",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 271A(13A), for paragraphs (a) to (c) substitute—\n“(a) any time before a date has been fixed for one of the following—\n(i) a preliminary hearing in the High Court,\n(ii) a first diet in the sheriff court, or\n(iii) a hearing at which the evidence is to be given, or\n(b) if a date has been fixed—\n(i) for a preliminary hearing in the High Court, no later than 14 clear days before the preliminary hearing,\n(ii) for a first diet in the sheriff court in the case of proceedings on indictment, no later than 7 clear days before the first diet, or\n(iii) in a case in which the proceedings are not to take place in the High Court or on indictment in the sheriff court, for a hearing at which the evidence is to be given, no later than 14 clear days before that hearing.”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 20.1.2020 by S.S.I. 2019/392, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/8/section/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:13:02.308400+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."
}