{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000/section-38",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000/section-38.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/43",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-court-services-act-2000",
  "path": "section/38",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Rehabilitation of offenders.",
  "text": "(1) Where a disqualification order is made in respect of an individual’s conviction of an offence, the rehabilitation period which, in accordance with section 6 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, is applicable to the conviction is to be determined as if that order had not been made; and a disqualification order is not a sentence for the purposes of that Act.\n(2) In this section, “conviction” has the same meaning as in that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 26-38 repealed (E.W.) (12.10.2009 for specified purposes, 30.3.2010 for specified purposes) by Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c. 47), s. 65, Sch. 10 (with ss. 51, 57(3), 60(4), 64(5)); S.I. 2009/2611, art. 3; S.I. 2010/1101, art. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1974 c. 53."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/43/section/38",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:22.078398+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."
}