- Latest available (Revised)
- Original (As enacted)
Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025
You are here:
What Version
Advanced Features
- Show Geographical Extent(e.g. England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)
- Show Timeline of Changes
Opening Options
More Resources
Status:
This version of this provision is prospective.
Status
The term provision is used to describe a definable element in a piece of legislation that has legislative effect – such as a Part, Chapter or section. A version of a provision is prospective either:
- where the provision (Part, Chapter or section) has never come into force or;
- where the text of the provision is subject to change, but no date has yet been appointed by the appropriate person or body for those changes to come into force.
Commencement Orders listed in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ box as not yet applied may bring this prospective version into force.
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025, Section 33.
Changes to Legislation
Revised legislation carried on this site may not be fully up to date. At the current time any known changes or effects made by subsequent legislation have been applied to the text of the legislation you are viewing by the editorial team. Please see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ for details regarding the timescales for which new effects are identified and recorded on this site.
Prospective
33Victim’s right to information about plea agreements, etc.S
(1)The 2014 Act is amended as follows.
(2)After section 6 insert—
“6ADisclosure of information about plea agreements, etc.
(1)This section applies where, in solemn proceedings, a person mentioned in subsection (2) (a “victim”) has indicated to the prosecutor that they wish to be informed where one or more of the following events has, as a result of agreement between the prosecutor and the accused, occurred—
(a)a relevant charge libelled in the indictment has been amended and the prosecutor has accepted a guilty plea to that charge,
(b)the prosecutor has accepted a plea of not guilty to a relevant charge.
(2)The person is—
(a)a natural person against whom an offence libelled in the indictment is alleged to have been committed, or
(b)in a case where the death of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) was (or appears to have been) caused by the offence or alleged offence, a prescribed relative of the person.
(3)The prosecutor must inform the victim of the event mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1)—
(a)as soon as reasonably practicable after the event has occurred, or
(b)where the prosecutor considers it is in the interests of justice, as soon as reasonably practicable after the proceedings have been substantively concluded.
(4)In this section—
“prescribed relative” means a person prescribed by the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of section 6(2)(b),
“prosecutor” means the Lord Advocate, Crown Counsel or the procurator fiscal (and any person duly authorised to represent or act for them),
“relevant charge” means a charge relating to an offence alleged to have been committed against the person mentioned in subsection (2)(a),
“substantively concluded”, in relation to criminal proceedings, means whichever is the earlier of—
(a)the accused being convicted or, as the case may be, acquitted in relation to all charges, or all charges remaining, in the indictment, or
(b)the proceedings otherwise being finally disposed of.
(5)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify this section to provide for its application in summary proceedings.
(6)Regulations under subsection (5)—
(a)may include incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional, transitory or saving provision,
(b)may make different provision for different purposes,
(c)are subject to the affirmative procedure.”.
Commencement Information
I1S. 33 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)
Options/Help
Print Options
PrintThe Whole Act
PrintThe Whole Part
PrintThis Section only
Legislation is available in different versions:
Latest Available (revised):The latest available updated version of the legislation incorporating changes made by subsequent legislation and applied by our editorial team. Changes we have not yet applied to the text, can be found in the ‘Changes to Legislation’ area.
Original (As Enacted or Made): The original version of the legislation as it stood when it was enacted or made. No changes have been applied to the text.
See additional information alongside the content
Geographical Extent: Indicates the geographical area that this provision applies to. For further information see ‘Frequently Asked Questions’.
Show Timeline of Changes: See how this legislation has or could change over time. Turning this feature on will show extra navigation options to go to these specific points in time. Return to the latest available version by using the controls above in the What Version box.
Opening Options
Different options to open legislation in order to view more content on screen at once
More Resources
Access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item from this tab. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:
- the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
- lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
- confers power and blanket amendment details
- all formats of all associated documents
- correction slips
- links to related legislation and further information resources
Timeline of Changes
This timeline shows the different points in time where a change occurred. The dates will coincide with the earliest date on which the change (e.g an insertion, a repeal or a substitution) that was applied came into force. The first date in the timeline will usually be the earliest date when the provision came into force. In some cases the first date is 01/02/1991 (or for Northern Ireland legislation 01/01/2006). This date is our basedate. No versions before this date are available. For further information see the Editorial Practice Guide and Glossary under Help.
More Resources
Use this menu to access essential accompanying documents and information for this legislation item. Dependent on the legislation item being viewed this may include:
- the original print PDF of the as enacted version that was used for the print copy
- correction slips
Click 'View More' or select 'More Resources' tab for additional information including:
- lists of changes made by and/or affecting this legislation item
- confers power and blanket amendment details
- all formats of all associated documents
- links to related legislation and further information resources
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. This site additionally contains content derived from EUR-Lex, reused under the terms of the Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of documents from the EU institutions. For more information see the EUR-Lex public statement on re-use.