{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-18.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/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Transfer directions",
  "text": "(1) Section 43 (representations where restriction direction made) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “local probation board or provider of probation services mentioned in section 42(2) or the relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(b) in paragraph (b), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(c) in the words after paragraph (b), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”.\n(3) In subsection (3), for “offender” substitute “patient”.\n(4) In subsection (4)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(b) in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c), for “offender” substitute “patient”.\n(5) In subsection (5)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(b) in paragraph (a), for “offender” substitute “patient”;\n(c) in paragraph (b)—\n(i) for “offender’s” substitute “patient’s”;\n(ii) after “section 71” insert “or 75”.\n(6) In subsection (6)—\n(a) in paragraph (a), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(b) in paragraph (b)—\n(i) in the words before sub-paragraph (i), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”;\n(ii) in sub-paragraph (ii), for “relevant probation body” to the end substitute “provider of probation services”.\n(7) In subsection (7), for “relevant probation body must” substitute “provider of probation services must, so far as the provider considers it appropriate to do so,”.\n(8) Omit subsection (8).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 18 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/18",
    "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."
}