There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980, Paragraph 2.
2U.K.A provision contained in any of sections 18(2), 19, 21, 22, 27, 30 and 39 of this Act, and any such related amendment or repeal, shall not apply in relation to a trial which has commenced before the coming into force of that provision; and, for the purposes of this paragraph, a trial shall be taken to commence—
(a)in the case of solemn proceedings, when the oath is administered to the jury;
(b)in the case of summary proceedings, when the first witness is sworn.
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