{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997/section-44",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997/section-44.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/48",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-punishment-scotland-act-1997",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Unlawful disclosure of information.",
  "text": "(1) After section 41B of the 1989 Act there shall be inserted the following section—\n“ Unlawful disclosure of information by medical officer.\n41D (1) This section applies to—\n(a) a registered medical practitioner appointed under paragraph (a) of section 107(6) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (medical services in contracted out prisons);\n(b) a registered medical practitioner providing appropriate medical services under an arrangement entered into under section 3A(2)(b) of this Act or paragraph (b) of the said section 107(6); and\n(c) any person acting under the supervision of such a practitioner.\n(2) Any person to whom this section applies who discloses, otherwise than in the course of his duty or as authorised by the Secretary of State, any information relating to a particular prisoner which he has acquired in the course of carrying out his duties shall be guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) above shall be liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine or both;\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or both.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1994 c.33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/48/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:52.618556+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."
}