{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-prisoners-early-release-miscellaneous-amendment-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-prisoners-early-release-miscellaneous-amendment-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2026/9780111065778",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisoners (Early Release) (Miscellaneous Amendment and Transitional Provisions) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-prisoners-early-release-miscellaneous-amendment-and-transitional-provisions-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment to section 44 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995",
  "text": "(1) Section 44 (detention of children) of the 1995 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (6A)(b), for “two-fifths” substitute “three-tenths”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 44 was relevantly amended by the Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5) and the Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 44(6A) was inserted by section 2(4)(b) of the Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2026/9780111065778/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:50.203712+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."
}