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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-4",
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  "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/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "More about the list of disposals",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may by regulations modify the list in section 3(2) so as to—\n(a) add, alter or remove an entry,\n(b) limit an entry so as to specify a certain aspect of what a court may do.\n(2) An entry included in section 3(2) may relate to anything, at any stage in criminal proceedings—\n(a) which can be made or imposed by a court with respect to a person, or\n(b) to which a person can otherwise be made subject by a court,\nexcept something under which a person is to be detained in custody.\n(3) A general or specific reference to a disposal mentioned in section 3(2) is, in relation to a requirement under section 1(1), to be construed as being to the relevant order or other measure so far as concerning—\n(a) a person's whereabouts in some way (including being at, or not being at, a particular place), or\n(b) a person's consumption, taking or ingesting of alcohol, drugs or other substances.\n(4) For the avoidance of doubt, anything listed in section 3(2) is to be regarded as a disposal for the purposes of this Part (whether or not it is the final disposal of a case).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 4 in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/283, reg. 2(b)"
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/4",
    "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."
}