1995 c. 46.

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/168/body/madeThe Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 (Commencement) Order 2005Courts of lawHearingsKing's Printer for Scotland2015-01-20HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARYSHERIFF COURTThis Commencement Order brings into force the first phase of the implementation of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 (“the Act”). That Act amended the procedures in the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (“the 1995 Act”) as regards special measures for hearing the evidence of children and other vulnerable witnesses. The new regime introduced by the Act is applied in the first phase to trials on indictment in the High Court and Sheriff Court (i.e. solemn criminal proceedings involving trial by judge and jury). Secondly the new regime is confined to children defined as persons under 16 years old. The intention is that as regards criminal trials these procedures will in a subsequent phase be extended to all criminal trials in these courts, and there is power in the act to extend them to the District Courts. It is also the intention to extend the regime to all vulnerable witnesses (i.e. not confined to children). The new regime introduced in the first phase introduces all the special measures available to children under the amended 1995 Act other than the taking of evidence on commission. Again the intention is that this special measure will be made available when arrangements are in place. As regards proceedings not subject to the first phase regime, they will still be subject to section 271 of the 1995 Act (unsubstituted).
1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 (Commencement) Order 2005.

2Appointed day1

1st April 2005 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the provisions of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 set out in column 1 of the table of commencements in the schedule to this Order.

2

The provisions referred to in subsection (1) shall come into force only for the purposes set out in column 2 of the table of commencements in the schedule to this Order.

3Definitions

In this instrument:

“the 1995 Act” means the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;

“the 2004 Act” means the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004.

4Savings and Transitions1

The provisions of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004 brought into force by this Order shall, in respect of solemn proceedings in the High Court and the sheriff court, apply only to solemn proceedings commenced on or after 1st April 2005, with proceedings being taken to have commenced when a report of the case has been received by the procurator fiscal.

2

Part 2 of the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2004, commenced by this Order in respect of children’s hearings court proceedings, shall apply only in respect of hearings of relevant appeals and applications which have been lodged on or after 1st April 2005.

HUGH HENRYA member of the Scottish ExecutiveSt Andrew’s House, Edinburgh17th March 2005
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