{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-20",
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  "legislation": "asp/2007/10",
  "legislation_title": "Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Criteria for granting banning order",
  "text": "The sheriff may grant a banning order only if satisfied—\n(a) that an adult at risk is being, or is likely to be, seriously harmed by another person,\n(b) that the adult at risk's well-being or property would be better safeguarded by banning that other person from a place occupied by the adult than it would be by moving the adult from that place, and\n(c) that either—\n(i) the adult at risk is entitled, or permitted by a third party, or\n(ii) neither the adult at risk nor the subject is entitled, or permitted by a third party,\nto occupy the place from which the subject is to be banned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 29.10.2008 by S.S.I. 2008/314, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/10/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:56.603628+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}