{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-and-justice-scotland-act-2024/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-and-justice-scotland-act-2024/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/5",
  "legislation_title": "Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/children-care-and-justice-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Hospital directions",
  "text": "(1) The 1995 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 59A (hospital directions)—\n(a) in subsection (1), “, not being a child,” is repealed,\n(b) in subsection (10), after the definition of “medical treatment” insert—\n““sentence of imprisonment” includes any sentence of detention,”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 38(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/5/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:10.987599+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."
}