{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-rehabilitation-act-2014/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-rehabilitation-act-2014/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/11",
  "legislation_title": "Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-rehabilitation-act-2014",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Reduction of cases in which prisoners released unconditionally",
  "text": "In section 243A of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (duty to release prisoners serving less than 12 months unconditionally once one-half of sentence served), for subsection (1) substitute—\n“(1) This section applies to a fixed-term prisoner if—\n(a) the prisoner is serving a sentence which is for a term of 1 day, or\n(b) the prisoner—\n(i) is serving a sentence which is for a term of less than 12 months, and\n(ii) is aged under 18 on the last day of the requisite custodial period.\n(1A) This section also applies to a fixed-term prisoner if—\n(a) the prisoner is serving a sentence which is for a term of less than 12 months, and\n(b) the sentence was imposed in respect of an offence committed before the day on which section 1 of the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014 came into force.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at 1.2.2015 by S.I. 2015/40, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/11/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:45.032298+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."
}