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Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019
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24Disclosure period: adjournment or deferral
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(1)The 1974 Act is amended as follows.
(2)After section 5D (inserted by section 23) there is inserted—
“5EDisclosure period: adjournment or deferral
(1)Where, after convicting a person, a court adjourns a case under section 201 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 or defers sentence under section 202 of that Act, the adjournment or deferral is to be treated as a sentence for the purposes of this Act.
(2)The disclosure period applicable to a sentence mentioned in subsection (1) is a period beginning with the date of the conviction and ending on the date a relevant sentence in respect of the conviction is imposed on the person.
(3)In subsection (2), a “relevant sentence” is any sentence other than an adjournment or deferral (or, where applicable, a further adjournment or deferral) imposed on the person in respect of the conviction.”.
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