[271BZA Child witnesses in certain solemn cases: special measures]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[271BZA  Child witnesses in certain solemn cases: special measures]

[(1)     This section applies where a child witness, other than the accused, is to give evidence at, or for the purposes of, a hearing in relevant criminal proceedings which are—

(a)     solemn proceedings, and

(b)     in respect of an offence listed in subsection (2).

(2)     The offences are—

(a)     murder,

(b)     culpable homicide,

(c)     assault to the danger of life,

(d)     abduction,

(e)     plagium,

(f)     a sexual offence to which section 288C applies,

[(fa)     an offence under any of sections 140 to 142 and 152 to 154 of the Health and Care Act 2022 (offences relating to virginity testing and hymenoplasty);]

(g)     an offence under section 1(1) of the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018,

(h)     an offence that is aggravated as described in section 1(1)(a) of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016,

(i)     an offence that would have fallen within paragraph (h) if section 1 of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland)

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