{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993/schedule-6/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993/schedule-6/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1993/9",
  "legislation_title": "Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisoners-and-criminal-proceedings-scotland-act-1993",
  "path": "schedule/6/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) An existing child detainee who, by the relevant date, has completed—\n(a) one-half or more of a period of detention in residential care for which he has been committed, shall be released from such care on that date;\n(b) less than one-half of that period, shall be so released as soon as he has completed one-half of that period,\nbut until the entire such period has elapsed may be required by the appropriate local authority to submit to supervision in accordance with such conditions as they consider appropriate.\n(2) Where a child released under sub-paragraph (1) above is subject to a supervision requirement within the meaning of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, the effect of that requirement shall commence, or as the case may be resume, upon such release.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/9/schedule/6/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:16.864603+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."
}