{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-27.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/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Notification to police",
  "text": "(1) The applicant for a banning order or temporary banning order (or such other person as may be prescribed) must, as soon as possible after any power of arrest attached to the order becomes effective, deliver to the chief constable—\n(a) a copy of the order (with the power of arrest attached), and\n(b) such other documents as may be prescribed.\n(2) Where a banning order or temporary banning order is varied or recalled, the applicant for the variation or recall (or such other person as may be prescribed) must, as soon as possible after the variation or recall, deliver to the chief constable—\n(a) a copy of the varied order or, as the case may be, a note of the recall, and\n(b) such other documents as may be prescribed.\n(3) In this section, “chief constable” means the chief constable of the Police Service of Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 27(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 8), s. 129(2), Sch. 7 para. 35(3); S.S.I. 2013/51, art. 2 (with transitional provisions and savings in S.S.I. 2013/121)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 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/27",
    "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."
}