{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-30",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-30.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/21",
  "legislation_title": "Offender Management Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007",
  "path": "section/30",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": "Use in criminal proceedings of evidence from polygraph sessions",
  "text": "(1) Evidence of any matter mentioned in subsection (2) may not be used in any proceedings against a released person for an offence.\n(2) The matters so excluded are—\n(a) any statement made by the released person while participating in a polygraph session; and\n(b) any physiological reactions of the released person while being questioned in the course of a polygraph examination.\n(3) In this section “polygraph examination” and “polygraph session” have the same meaning as in section 29.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 30 in force at 19.1.2009 by S.I. 2009/32, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/21/section/30",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:05:40.966141+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}