{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-53",
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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/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Re-release after revocation of licences generally",
  "text": "(1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3)(b) of section 10A, the word “immediately” is repealed.\n(3) In section 17—\n(a) in subsection (2), for the words “revocation of a person's licence” there is substituted “ return to prison of a person whose licence is revoked ”,\n(b) in subsection (4)—\n(i) the word “immediate” is repealed,\n(ii) for the words from “the Secretary of State” to the end there is substituted “ the Scottish Ministers must give effect to the direction without undue delay ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53(1)(3)(a) in force at 11.10.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/309, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 53(2)(3)(b) in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/283, reg. 2(o) (with reg. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/53",
    "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."
}