{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-204A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-204A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/204A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "204A",
  "heading": "Restriction on consecutive sentences for released prisoners.",
  "text": "A court sentencing a person to imprisonment or other detention shall not order or direct that the term of imprisonment or detention shall commence on the expiration of any other such sentence from which he has been released at any time under the existing or new provisions within the meaning of Schedule 6 to the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 204A inserted (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 112; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1993 c.9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "asp/2007/17",
      "affecting_title": "Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/204A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:46.035735+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."
}