{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-20A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-20A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/45",
  "legislation_title": "Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/20A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20A",
  "heading": "Transfer of young offenders to prison ....",
  "text": "(1) Subject to section 21 of this Act, an offender sentenced to detention in a young offenders institution shall be detained in such an institution unless a direction under subsection (2) below is in force in relation to him.\n(2) The Secretary of State may from time to time direct that an offender sentenced to detention in a young offenders institution shall be detained in a prison ... instead of in a young offenders institution ....\n(3) Where an offender is detained in a prison ... by virtue of subsection (2) above, any rules under section 39 of this Act which apply in relation to persons detained in that place shall apply to that offender; but subject to the foregoing and to subsection (4) below, the provisions of the 1975 Act, the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 and this Act relating to the treatment and supervision of persons sentenced to detention in a young offenders institution shall continue to apply to the offender.\n(4) Where an offender referred to in subsection (3) above attains the age of 21 years, subsection (3) of section 21 of this Act shall apply to him as if he had been transferred to prison under that section.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 20A inserted (1.10.1993) by 1993 c. 9, s.23 (with ss. 5(1), 6(1), 10, 27 and 47(2), Sch. 6 paras. 1, 2, 6 and 7); S.I. 1993/2050, art. 3(4).By 1995 c. 40, ss. 5, 7(2), Sch. 4 para. 86(2) it is provided (1.4.1996) that for the words “1975 Act” where they occur in 1993 c. 9 there shall be substituted “1995 Act”;"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 20A(2) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), s. 38(3), sch. para. 14(3)(a)(i); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(j)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 20A(2) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), s. 38(3), sch. para. 14(3)(a)(ii); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(j)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 20A(3) repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), s. 38(3), sch. para. 14(3)(b); S.S.I. 2024/211, reg. 2(j)(ii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 20A heading repealed (28.8.2024) by Children (Care and Justice) (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 5), s. 38(3), sch. para. 14(3)(c); 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/20A",
    "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."
}