{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/19",
  "legislation_title": "Victims and Courts Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Hospital orders",
  "text": "(1) Section 38B (removal of restriction) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a)—\n(i) for “Subsection (3) applies” substitute “Subsections (3) and (3A) apply”;\n(ii) for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(b) in paragraph (b), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”.\n(3) For subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) The provider of probation services must take all reasonable steps to notify the managers of the relevant hospital of an address at which that person may be contacted.\n(3A) The provider of probation services may notify that person of the name and address of the relevant hospital.”\n(4) Omit subsection (6).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 11 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 18(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/19/schedule/2/paragraph/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:41:27.867027+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."
}