{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2003/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2003/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/7",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Legal custody",
  "text": "(1) In section 13 of the 1989 Act (legal custody of prisoners)—\n(a) for the words “A person shall be deemed to be” there is substituted “ Without prejudice to section 295 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 46) (legal custody of persons generally), a prisoner is ”; and\n(b) in paragraph (b), at the end there is added “ , a constable (“constable” having the same meaning as it has, by virtue of paragraph 17(1) and (2) of Schedule 1 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43), in section 40(1) of this Act) or a police custody and security officer ”.\n(2) In section 295 of the 1995 Act (legal custody of persons generally)—\n(a) at the beginning there is inserted “ Without prejudice to section 13 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 (c. 45) (legal custody of prisoners), ”;\n(b) for the word “shall” there is substituted “ is ”; and\n(c) the words “be deemed to be” are repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/7/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:51.376466+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."
}