{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-53C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995/section-53C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1995/46",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-procedure-scotland-act-1995",
  "path": "section/53C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53C",
  "heading": "Early termination of interim compulsion order",
  "text": "(1) An interim compulsion order shall cease to have effect if the court—\n(a) makes a compulsion order in relation to the offender;\n(b) makes a hospital direction in relation to the offender; or\n(c) deals with the offender in some other way, including the imposing of a sentence of imprisonment on the offender.\n(2) In this section, “court” means the court which made the interim compulsion order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 53-53D and cross-heading substituted (5.10.2005) for s. 53 and cross-heading by Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 13), ss. 131, 333(1)-(4); S.S.I. 2005/161, art. 3 (with savings for s. 53 by virtue of S.S.I. 2005/452, art. 33(14))"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/46/section/53C",
    "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."
}