{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-54.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/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Long-term prisoners due for removal from the UK",
  "text": "(1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (3) of section 1, for the words from “his” to the end there is substituted “ the prisoner's sentence, the Scottish Ministers must release the prisoner on licence if recommended to do so by the Parole Board ”.\n(3) Subsection (1) of section 9 is repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 54 in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/283, reg. 2(p)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/54",
    "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."
}