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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-44",
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  "legislation": "asp/2025/12",
  "legislation_title": "Victims, Witnesses, and Justice Reform (Scotland) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025",
  "path": "section/44",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "44",
  "heading": "Standards of service",
  "text": "(1) The 2014 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2 (standards of service), in subsection (3)(b)—\n(a) the words from “prisons” to the end become sub-paragraph (i),\n(b) after sub-paragraph (i), insert—\n“(ii) persons who are subject both to a compulsion order under either section 57(2)(a) or 57A(2) of the 1995 Act and to a restriction order under section 59 of that Act,\n(iii) persons who are subject to a hospital direction under section 59A of the 1995 Act,\n(iv) persons in respect of whom a transfer for treatment direction under section 136(2) of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 has been made,”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 44 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 44 in force at 1.10.2026 by S.S.I. 2026/120, reg. 2, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/44",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:38:41.807774+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."
}