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Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014

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32Interpretation

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In this Act—

  • “the 1995 Act” means the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995,

  • “the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003,

  • “the Mental Health Act” means the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.

33Ancillary provision

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(1)The Scottish Ministers may by order make such supplementary, incidental, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision as they consider appropriate for the purposes of, in consequence of, or for giving full effect to, any provision of this Act.

(2)An order under this section may modify any enactment (including this Act).

(3)An order under subsection (1) containing provisions which add to, replace or omit any part of the text of an Act is subject to the affirmative procedure.

(4)Otherwise, an order under subsection (1) is subject to the negative procedure.

34Commencement

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(1)This section and sections 30 so far as it inserts the new section 4ZA, 31(1), 31(2) so far as it inserts paragraphs 1, 2 and 5 of the new schedule 1A, 31(3), 32, 33 and 35 come into force on the day after Royal Assent.

(2)The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Scottish Ministers may by order appoint.

(3)An order under subsection (2) may contain transitory or transitional provision or savings.

35Short title

The short title of this Act is the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014.

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