{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1961/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1961/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/39",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1961",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1961",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Temporary transfer.",
  "text": "(1) The responsible Minister may, on the application of a person serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention in any part of the United Kingdom, make an order for his temporary transfer to another part of the United Kingdom or to any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man and for his removal to an appropriate institution there.\n(2) The Secretary of State may, on the application of a person serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention in any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man, make an order for his temporary transfer to any part of the United Kingdom or another of those islands and for his removal to an appropriate institution there.\n(3) A person removed in pursuance of any such order from one country or island to another shall while in the country or island to which he is so removed be kept in custody except so far as the Minister by whom the order was made may in any particular case or class of case otherwise direct.\n(4) A person removed in pursuance of any such order from one country or island to another may without further order be returned to the country or island from which he was removed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/9-10/39/section/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:10:15.898945+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."
}