{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2019/14",
  "legislation_title": "Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Table A – disclosure periods: ordinary cases",
  "text": "(1) The 1974 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 5 there is inserted—\n“Table A – disclosure periods: ordinary cases\n5A (1) This is Table A as referred to in section 5(2A)—\nTABLE A\nDisclosure periods: ordinary cases\nSentence\nDisclosure period – aged 18 or over\nDisclosure period – aged under 18\nA custodial sentence not exceeding 12 months\nThe term of the sentence plus 2 years\nThe term of the sentence plus 1 year\nA custodial sentence exceeding 12 months but not exceeding 30 months\nThe term of the sentence plus 4 years\nThe term of the sentence plus 2 years\nA custodial sentence exceeding 30 months but not exceeding 48 months\nThe term of the sentence plus 6 years\nThe term of the sentence plus 3 years\nA fine\n12 months\n6 months\nA compensation order under section 249 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995\n12 months\n6 months\nAn order for endorsement made by a court in relation to an offence mentioned in schedule 2 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988\n5 years\n2½ years\nAny sentence—\n(a)not mentioned above in this Table or in Table B, or\n(b)other than one to which section 5(2D), or any of sections 5C to 5J, applies\n12 months\n6 months\n(2) In Table A, “custodial sentence” and “Table B” have the same meanings as given by section 5(12).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 30.11.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/245, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:57.887663+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."
}