{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997/schedule-8A/paragraph-44C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997/schedule-8A/paragraph-44C.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1997/50",
  "legislation_title": "Police Act 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-act-1997",
  "path": "schedule/8A/paragraph/44C",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "44C",
  "heading": "Sexual offences",
  "text": "An offence under any of the following provisions of the Abusive Behaviour and Sexual Harm (Scotland) Act 2016—\n(a) section 2 (disclosing, or threatening to disclose, an intimate photograph or film),\n(b) section 24 (breach of sexual harm prevention order or interim sexual harm prevention order),\n(c) section 34 (breach of sexual risk order or interim sexual risk order),\n(d) section 37 (breach of orders equivalent to orders in Chapters 3 and 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Schs. 8A, 8B inserted (S.) (8.2.2016) by The Police Act 1997 and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 Remedial (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/423), arts. 1(2), 3(8) (with arts. 5-10, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 8A paras. 44A-44D inserted (19.12.2022) by The Police Act 1997 (Offences in Schedules 8A and 8B) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/379), regs. 1, 2(26)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/50/schedule/8A/paragraph/44C",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:24:18.907526+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."
}