{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-27.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/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Disclosure period: juvenile offenders",
  "text": "(1) The 1974 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) After section 5G (inserted by section 26) there is inserted—\n“Disclosure period: orders relating to juvenile offenders\n5H (1) Where, in respect of a conviction, an order mentioned in subsection (2) was imposed on a person, the disclosure period applicable to the sentence is 1 year from the date of the conviction.\n(2) The order is an order under section 61 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937—\n(a) to send the person to an approved school, or\n(b) to commit the person to the care of a fit person.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 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/27",
    "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."
}