The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2023

Made: 2nd May 2023

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 4th May 2023

Coming into force: 17th August 2023

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the power conferred by section 117(2) of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016[^f00001].

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 8) Order 2023 and comes into force on 17 August 2023.

Appointed day

2

17 August 2023 is the day appointed for the coming into force of the following provisions of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016—

• (a) section 113(1) (Police Negotiating Board for Scotland - establishment and functions), so far as not already in force,

• (b) section 113(2),

• (c) section 114(1)(a) and (2) (consequential and transitional).

Signed

ANGELA CONSTANCE — A member of the Scottish Government — 2nd May 2023

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force on 17 August 2023 the remainder of those provisions of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (“the 2016 Act”) that relate to the Police Negotiating Board for Scotland (“PNBS”). It commences those provisions which confer functions on PNBS, lists PNBS as a Scottish public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (asp 13) and brings into force the transitional provisions contained in section 114(2) of the 2016 Act.

The Bill for the 2016 Act received Royal Assent on 13 January 2016. Sections 71, 73 to 77 and 115 to 118 came into force the following day.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2016 asp 1.