{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004/section-44I",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-violence-crime-and-victims-act-2004/section-44I.json",
  "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/44I",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44I",
  "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 44H,\n(b) the limitation direction mentioned in section 44H(1)(b) has ceased to have effect (whether before or after the request for the information was made), and\n(c) the offender in respect of whom the request for the information was made is treated for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 as a patient in respect of whom a hospital order has effect.\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) The offender 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 offender accordingly.\n(5) The request for information under section 44H is to be treated as a request for information to be provided in accordance with section 44F.\n(6) In this section “the relevant hospital” means the hospital in which the offender is detained.",
  "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/44I",
    "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."
}