[288AB References of UNCRC compatibility issues to the High Court or Supreme Court]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[288AB  References of UNCRC compatibility issues to the High Court or Supreme Court]

[(1)     In this section and section 288AC, “UNCRC compatibility issue” means a question, arising in criminal proceedings as to—

(a)     whether words in an enactment to which section 29 or 30 of the UNCRC Incorporation Act applies give rise to an incompatibility with the UNCRC requirements,

(b)     whether a public authority has acted (or proposed to act) in a way which is made unlawful by section 6(1) of the UNCRC Incorporation Act.

(2)     In subsection (1)—

“public authority” has the same meaning as in section 6(5) of the UNCRC Incorporation

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