{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004/section-44G",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/28",
  "legislation_title": "Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004",
  "path": "section/44G",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44G",
  "heading": "Removal of restriction",
  "text": "(1) This section applies if—\n(a) the provider of probation services is required to provide information to a person in accordance with section 44D, and\n(b) the restriction order mentioned in section 44D(1)(c) has ceased to have effect (whether before or after the request for the information was made) while the hospital order continues in force.\n(2) The provider of probation services must take all reasonable steps to notify the managers of the relevant hospital of an address at which the person who made the request for the information may be contacted.\n(3) The provider of probation services may notify the person who made the request of the name and address of the relevant hospital.\n(4) While the hospital order continues in force—\n(a) the patient in respect of whom the hospital order was made with the restriction order is to be regarded as a patient in respect of whom a hospital order was made without a restriction order; and section 44F applies in relation to the patient accordingly, and\n(b) the request for information under section 44D is to be treated as a request for information to be provided in accordance with section 44F.\n(5) In this section “the relevant hospital” has the meaning given by section 44F(9).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3A Ch. 2 inserted (13.8.2026 for specified purposes) by Victims and Courts Act 2026 (c. 19), s. 18(1), Sch. 2 para. 24; S.I. 2026/918, reg. 2(b)(iii)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/28/section/44G",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:58.721276+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."
}