{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-and-courts-act-2026/schedule-2/paragraph-9.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/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Hospital orders",
  "text": "(1) Section 38 (information where restriction order made) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a), 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—\n(a) so far as the provider considers it appropriate to do so, to provide that person with—\n(i) information about the discharge, or consideration for discharge, of the patient;\n(ii) information about the imposition of conditions in connection with the patient’s discharge;\n(iii) details of any such conditions which the provider considers relate to the victim or the victim’s family;\n(b) if the restriction order in respect of the patient is to cease to have effect, so far as the provider considers it appropriate to do so, to notify that person of the date on which it is to cease to have effect;\n(c) so far as the provider considers it appropriate to do so, to provide that person with—\n(i) information about the grant to the patient of leave to be absent from hospital under section 17 of the Mental Health Act 1983, or the consideration of the patient for such leave;\n(ii) information about the imposition of conditions in connection with the grant of such leave to the patient;\n(iii) details of any such conditions which the provider considers relate to the victim or the victim’s family;\n(d) to provide that person with such other information as the provider considers appropriate in all the circumstances of the case.”\n(4) In subsection (4), in the words before paragraph (a), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”.\n(5) In subsection (5), in paragraph (b), after “section 71” insert “or 75”.\n(6) In subsection (6), in the words before paragraph (a), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”.\n(7) In subsection (7), for “relevant probation body” substitute “provider of probation services”.\n(8) Omit subsection (9).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 9 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/9",
    "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."
}