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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-40",
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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/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Continued independence of action",
  "text": "(1) The Parole Board is to continue to act as an independent tribunal when exercising decision-making functions by virtue of Part 1 of the 1993 Act (or decision-making functions by virtue of another enactment relating to the same things).\n(2) In this section, the reference to the Parole Board is to the Parole Board for Scotland.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 40 in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/283, reg. 2(f)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/40",
    "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."
}