{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/45",
  "legislation_title": "Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Discharge of prisoners.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) A prisoner discharged from a prison situated outside the . . . area in which he was convicted shall be entitled to be taken back to that . . . area at the expense of the Secretary of State.\n(3) In this section, “area” means the area of a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16(1) repealed (1.10.1993) by 1993 c. 9, s. 47(3), Sch. 7 Pt. I (with s. 47(2), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 2); S.I. 1993/2050, art. 3(4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1)(2), Sch. 13 para. 162(1)(4)(a), Sch. 14; S.I. 1995/3326, art. 3(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 16(3) inserted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 162(1)(4)(b); S.I. 1995/3326, art. 3(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 amended (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 119, Sch. 8 para. 70(1)-(3); S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(y)(2)(u)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/45/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:44:44.436072+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."
}