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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Mutual Recognition of Criminal Financial Penalties in the European Union (Scotland) Order 2009 (revoked) No. 342
2.—(1) The amendments to the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 made by this Order apply only in relation to financial penalties—
(a)which were imposed by a court on conviction; or
(b)accrued otherwise than on conviction of an offence and, on default, enforced in the same manner as fines imposed by a court,
on or after 1st October 2008.
(2) In this article, “financial penalty” where—
(a)that penalty is one to which section 223A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995(1) applies, has the meaning given in subsection (5) of that section;
(b)that penalty is one to which section 223F of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995(2) applies, has the meaning given in Article 1(b) of the Framework Decision on financial penalties.
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