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SCHEDULEMODIFICATION OF ENACTMENTS

PART 1RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 3VULNERABLE WITNESSES AND EXPERT EVIDENCE

Special measures for vulnerable witnesses

6(1)The 1995 Act is amended as follows.

(2)In section 271B, in subsection (2)—

(a)paragraph (c) is repealed (as is the word “and” immediately preceding paragraph (f)),

(b)after paragraph (f) there is inserted—

(g)an offence to which section 288C applies (certain sexual offending),

(h)an offence under section 1(1) of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018,

(i)an offence that is aggravated as described in section 1(1)(a) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016..