{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-48.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/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Release on licence under section 3AA of the 1993 Act",
  "text": "(1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 3AA, in subsection (2), for the words from “whichever” to the end there is substituted “ one quarter of the prisoner's sentence ”.\n(3) In section 3AA, for subsection (6)(b) there is substituted—\n“(b) amend a period for the time being specified in subsection (2) above (which may be done by amending the subsection to describe a period as a particular length of time or a proportion of a prisoner's sentence),”.”.\n(4) In section 3AA, after subsection (6) there is inserted—\n“(7) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this section requires the Parole Board to make a decision by a particular date about whether to recommend that a long-term prisoner be released having served one-half of the prisoner's sentence.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 48 in force at 11.10.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/309, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/48",
    "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."
}