{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/custodial-sentences-and-weapons-scotland-act-2007/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/custodial-sentences-and-weapons-scotland-act-2007/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2007/17",
  "legislation_title": "Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/custodial-sentences-and-weapons-scotland-act-2007",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Release after three-quarters of sentence served",
  "text": "(1) As soon as a custody and community prisoner has served three-quarters of the prisoner's custody and community sentence, the Scottish Ministers must release the prisoner on community licence.\n(2) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a prisoner whose licence has been revoked by virtue of section 37(1) or (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 power to modify conferred (24.9.2012) by Criminal Cases (Punishment and Review) (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 7), ss. 2(2), 5(2); S.S.I. 2012/249, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2007/17/section/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:50.645478+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."
}