{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974/section-5H",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974/section-5H.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/53",
  "legislation_title": "Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rehabilitation-of-offenders-act-1974",
  "path": "section/5H",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5H",
  "heading": "Disclosure period: orders relating to juvenile offenders",
  "text": "(1) Where, in respect of a conviction, an order mentioned in subsection (2) was imposed on a person, the disclosure period applicable to the sentence is 1 year from the date of the conviction.\n(2) The order is an order under section 61 of the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1937—\n(a) to send the person to an approved school, or\n(b) to commit the person to the care of a fit person.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 5H inserted (S.) (30.11.2020) by Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), ss. 27(2), 63(2) (with s. 37); S.S.I. 2020/245, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/53/section/5H",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:00.485474+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."
}