{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000/schedule-8/paragraph-20L",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000/schedule-8/paragraph-20L.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/11",
  "legislation_title": "Terrorism Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorism-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/20L",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20L",
  "heading": "Representations",
  "text": "(1) Before determining whether to authorise a person's continued detention, a review officer must give either of the following persons an opportunity to make representations about the detention—\n(a) the detained person, or\n(b) a solicitor representing the detained person who is available at the time of the review.\n(2) Representations may be oral or written.\n(3) A review officer may refuse to hear oral representations from the detained person if the officer considers that the detained person is unfit to make representations because of the detained person's condition or behaviour.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 Pt. 1A inserted (13.5.2014 for para. 20K(8)(9) and otherwise 1.4.2015) by Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (c. 12), s. 185(1), Sch. 9 para. 7(3) (with ss. 21, 33, 42, 58, 75, 93); S.I. 2014/949, art. 3, Sch. para. 21(b); S.I. 2014/1916, art. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted for words",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2025/31",
      "affecting_title": "Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/11/schedule/8/paragraph/20L",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:13.340901+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."
}