The Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2022

Made: 25th January 2022

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 27th January 2022

Coming into force: 1st April 2022

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 34(2) of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 9) Order 2022 and comes into force on 1 April 2022.

Day appointed

2

1 April 2022 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 9 of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014[^f00002].

Signed

HUMZA YOUSAF — A member of the Scottish Government — 25th January 2022

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order commences section 9 of the Victims and Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) on 1 April 2022.

Section 9 allows a person who is a victim of a sexual offence, to request that any forensic medical examination of them is carried out by a registered medical practitioner of a sex specified by the person.

The Bill for the 2014 Act received Royal Assent on 17 January 2014. The following sections of the 2014 Act came into force on the following day: sections 30 (in part), 31 (in part), 32, 33, 34 and 35.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2014 asp 1.

[^f00002]: Section 9 was amended by paragraph 5(3) of the schedule of the Forensic Medical Services (Victims of Sexual Offences) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 3).