{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-20.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/45",
  "legislation_title": "Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Temporary detention of persons liable to detention in young offenders institution ....",
  "text": "A person who is required to be taken to a young offenders institution ... may, until arrangements can be made for taking him there, be temporarily detained elsewhere.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 20 repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), s. 38(3), sch. para. 14(2)(a); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(j)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 20 heading repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), s. 38(3), sch. para. 14(2)(b); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(j)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/45/section/20",
    "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."
}