{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/4",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-immigration-act-2008",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Recall of life prisoners: abolition of requirement for recommendation by Parole Board",
  "text": "(1) Section 32 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43) (recall of life prisoners while on licence) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsections (1) and (2) (power of Secretary of State to revoke licence) substitute—\n“(1) The Secretary of State may, in the case of any life prisoner who has been released on licence under this Chapter, revoke his licence and recall him to prison.”\n(3) In subsection (3) (representations by prisoner) for “subsection (1) or (2) above” substitute “ this section ”.\n(4) In subsection (4) (reference to Parole Board by Secretary of State) for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute “ the case of a life prisoner recalled under this section ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 31 in force at 14.7.2008 by S.I. 2008/1586, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 17"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/4/section/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:09.448635+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."
}