{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adult-support-and-protection-scotland-act-2007/section-32.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/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Duty to bring detained person before sheriff",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person is detained under section 29 ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nthe detained person must be brought, on the next court day on which it is practicable to do so, before the sheriff sitting as a court of summary jurisdiction for the district in which the person was arrested.\n(2) Nothing in this section prevents the detained person from being brought before the sheriff on a day other than a court day if—\n(a) the sheriff is sitting on such a day for the disposal of criminal business ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 32(1)(b) and word omitted (25.1.2018) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Part 1 and Ancillary Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/453), reg. 1, sch. para. 6(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 32(2)(b) and word omitted (25.1.2018) by virtue of The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Part 1 and Ancillary Provision) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/453), reg. 1, sch. para. 6(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 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/32",
    "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."
}