{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-21.json",
  "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/21",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Temporary banning orders",
  "text": "(1) The sheriff may grant a temporary banning order pending determination of an application for a banning order.\n(2) A temporary banning order may include any provision which may be included in a banning order.\n(3) Where a temporary banning order is granted, the sheriff must determine the related application for a banning order within such period as may be specified in rules made under section 32 of the Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act 1971 (c. 58).\n(4) A temporary banning order expires on the earliest of the following dates—\n(a) the date on which the sheriff determines the related application for a banning order,\n(b) the date by which subsection (3) requires the sheriff to determine the related application for a banning order,\n(c) if the temporary banning order is recalled, the date on which it is recalled,\n(d) any specified expiry date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 21 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/21",
    "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."
}