{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/20",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Child detainees unlawfully at large.",
  "text": "For subsection (3) of section 40 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 (persons unlawfully at large) there shall be substituted the following subsection—\n“(3) In this section—\n(a) any reference to a person sentenced to imprisonment shall be construed as including a reference to any person sentenced or ordered to be detained under section 205, 206 or 413 of the 1975 Act;\n(b) any reference to a prison shall be construed as including a reference to a place where the person is liable to be detained under the sentence or order; and\n(c) any reference to a sentence shall be construed as including a reference to an order under section 413 of that Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1989 c.45."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/20/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:09.867874+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."
}