{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/management-of-offenders-scotland-act-2019/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Approved devices to be prescribed",
  "text": "(1) An approved device, in relation to a requirement under—\n(a) section 1(1), or\n(b) section 5(1),\nis an electronic device of a type prescribed in regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.\n(2) A type of device that may be prescribed in regulations under subsection (1) includes—\n(a) a device for monitoring a person's whereabouts in some manner (including of being at, or not being at, a particular place), or\n(b) a device for—\n(i) detecting whether a person has consumed, taken or ingested alcohol, drugs or other substances, or\n(ii) measuring the level of alcohol, drugs or other substances consumed, taken or ingested by a person.\n(3) Regulations under subsection (1) may include provision as to any apparatus to be linked to a device as well as prescribing the device itself.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/283, reg. 2(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/14/section/8",
    "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."
}