{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015/schedule-10/paragraph-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015/schedule-10/paragraph-15.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/2",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-courts-act-2015",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/15",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person who is or has been employed at a contracted-out secure college (whether as a secure college custody officer or otherwise) commits an offence if the person discloses information—\n(a) which the person acquired in the course of the employment, and\n(b) which relates to a particular person detained in youth detention accommodation.\n(2) It is not an offence under this paragraph for a person to disclose information—\n(a) in the course of the person's duty, or\n(b) when authorised to do so by the Secretary of State.\n(3) A person who commits an offence under this paragraph is liable—\n(a) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or a fine (or both), and\n(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding the general limit in a magistrates’ court or a fine (or both).\n(4) In relation to an offence committed before 2 May 2022, the reference in sub-paragraph (3)(b) to the general limit in a magistrates’ court is to be read as a reference to 6 months.\n(5) In relation to an offence committed before section 85 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 comes into force, the reference in sub-paragraph (3)(b) to a fine is to be read as a reference to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 15(3)(b) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1 table"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 15(4) substituted (28.4.2022) by The Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 33) and Sentencing Act 2020 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/500), regs. 1(2), 5(1), Sch. Pt. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 10 para. 15(4) substituted (7.2.2023 at 12.00 p.m.) by The Judicial Review and Courts Act 2022 (Magistrates’ Court Sentencing Powers) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/149), regs. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. Pt. 1 table"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 15 in force at 20.3.2015 by S.I. 2015/778, art. 2(1)(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/2/schedule/10/paragraph/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:15.088837+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."
}