{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-32B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989/section-32B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1989/45",
  "legislation_title": "Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-scotland-act-1989",
  "path": "section/32B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32B",
  "heading": "Certification of being unlawfully at large",
  "text": "(1) Subsections (2) and (3) relate to proceedings for an offence under section 32A(1).\n(2) A qualifying document is sufficient evidence of the fact that a person has been deemed to be unlawfully at large by virtue of a particular section mentioned in section 32A(1).\n(3) A document is a qualifying document if it—\n(a) certifies with respect to the person, by reference to the particular section mentioned in section 32A(1)—\n(i) the matter of being deemed to be unlawfully at large, and\n(ii) the date from which the deeming took effect, and\n(b) bears to be signed and dated by or on behalf of the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 32A-32D and cross-heading inserted (11.10.2019) by Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), ss. 59(2), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/309, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1989/45/section/32B",
    "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."
}