{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/45",
  "legislation_title": "Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Young offenders institutions.",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may provide—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) young offenders institutions, that is to say, places in which offenders sentenced to detention in a young persons not less than 18 but under 21 years of age—\n(i) sentenced to detention in a young offenders institution, or\n(ii) remanded or committed in custody for trial or sentence,\nmay be kept.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Subject to any exception or modification in any provision of this Act and unless the context otherwise requires, this Act applies to ... young offenders institutions and to persons detained in such ... institutions in the same manner as it applies to prisons and prisoners.\n(5) Section 11(4) and (5) does not apply to young offenders institutions.\n(6) Sections 1 to 3, 4 to 6, 9, 10, 11(1), 13 to 17, 33A to 37 and 41 to 41D apply to ... young offenders institutions and to persons detained there in the same manner as those provisions apply to prisons and prisoners subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be made by rules made under section 39.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 19(1)(a) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 22(2)(a), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(f) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(1)(b) substituted (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 21(2), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(e) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 19(2) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 22(2)(b), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(f) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 19(3) repealed (31.8.2015) by The Public Services Reform (Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons) (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/39), arts. 1, 2(8)(a) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 19(4)-(6) substituted for s. 19(4) (31.8.2015) by The Public Services Reform (Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons) (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/39), arts. 1, 2(8)(b) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(4) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 22(2)(c)(i), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(f) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(4) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 22(2)(c)(ii), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(f) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 19(6) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 22(2)(d), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(f) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 19 heading substituted (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), ss. 22(2)(e), 38(3); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(f) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/45/section/19",
    "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."
}