{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorist-offenders-restriction-of-early-release-act-2020/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorist-offenders-restriction-of-early-release-act-2020/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/3",
  "legislation_title": "Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/terrorist-offenders-restriction-of-early-release-act-2020",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Disapplication of existing release provisions: Scotland",
  "text": "(1) The Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1 (early release of short-term, long-term and life prisoners) after subsection (8) insert—\n“(9) This section does not apply in relation to a person to whom section 1AB applies.”\n(3) In section 1AA (short-term prisoners: early release of certain sexual offenders) after subsection (8) insert—\n“(9) This section does not apply in relation to a person to whom section 1AB applies.”\n(4) In section 3AA (further powers to release prisoners) after subsection (7) insert—\n“(8) This section does not apply in relation to a person to whom section 1AB applies.”\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) In section 7 (children detained in solemn proceedings)—\n(a) in subsection (5)(a) after “sections” insert “ 1AB, ”, and\n(b) after subsection (7) insert—\n“(8) This section (other than subsection (5)) does not apply in relation to a person to whom section 1AB applies.”\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 4(5) omitted (30.4.2021) by virtue of Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(1)(i), Sch. 13 para. 60"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 4(7) omitted (30.4.2021) by virtue of Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021 (c. 11), s. 50(1)(i), Sch. 13 para. 60"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/3/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:02:21.389794+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."
}