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The Procurator FiscaliiCrown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (2001) Prosecution Code. must decide if there is sufficient evidence, which must be reliable and credible, to justify court proceedings.
If we do not have that information, which precedes the code of practice, it will be impossible to work out whether the code of practice, once it has been adopted, has made a difference.
The amendment seeks to establish the status of the access code. It also deals with consultation, which a number of bodies believe should be an important part of the code.