Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019

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1(1)The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.S

(2)In section 209, after subsection (7A) there is inserted—

(7B)A supervised release order made in relation to a person is to be taken to be of no effect if the person becomes a long-term prisoner, as defined in section 27(1) of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993, because of the treating of—

(a)a sentence in association with which the order is made, and

(b)any other sentence (whenever imposed on the person),

together as a single term by virtue of section 27(5) of that Act..

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 11.10.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/309, reg. 2, sch.