PART 12Final provisions
Crown application
257Crown application: criminal offences
1
No contravention by the Crown of any provision of or made under this Act makes the Crown criminally liable.
2
But the Court of Session may, on the application of the Lord Advocate, declare unlawful any act or omission of the Crown which constitutes such a contravention.
3
Despite subsection (1), this Act applies to persons in the public service of the Crown as it applies to other persons.