The Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999 (Commencement No. 11) (Scotland) Order 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, which extends to Scotland only, brings into force on 7th October 2004 the following provisions of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999_

• sections 46 and 47 (which relate to restrictions on reporting of certain matters in relation to criminal proceedings in England and Wales and Northern Ireland) in so far as is necessary for the purposes of a prosecution in Scotland of an offence under section 49 of that Act;

• sections 49(1) to (5), and 50 to 52 (which relate to the prosecution of offences in respect of those reporting restrictions) in so far as those provisions have effect for the purposes of sections 46 and 47;

• paragraph 14 of Schedule 2, which extends to Scotland the provisions of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 (“the 1992 Act”), the amendments made to the 1992 Act by paragraphs 6 to 13 of that Schedule and the repeals made by the relevant entry in Schedule, so far as are necessary for the purposes of the prosecution in Scotland of an offence in relation to reporting restrictions under section 5 of the 1992 Act;

• paragraph 1 of Schedule 7 in so far as it relates to paragraph 6 of that Schedule; and

• paragraph 6 of Schedule 7 in so far as it relates to section 46.