{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/victims-witnesses-and-justice-reform-scotland-act-2025/section-53.json",
  "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/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Release on licence: reasons for decisions",
  "text": "(1) The Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 17 (release on licence: right of victim to receive information and make representations)—\n(a) in subsection (6)—\n(i) in paragraph (a), after “release” insert “, including a summary of the reasons for its decision”,\n(ii) in paragraph (b), after “conditions” insert “, including a summary of the reasons for its decision”,\n(b) in subsection (8), in paragraph (a), after “conditions” insert “, including a summary of the reasons for its decision”,\n(c) in subsection (10), in paragraph (a), after “conditions” insert “, including a summary of the reasons for their decision”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 116(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2025/12/section/53",
    "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."
}