The Restriction of Liberty Order etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2013

Citation, commencement and revocation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Restriction of Liberty Order etc. (Scotland) Regulations 2013 and come into force on 1st March 2013.

(2) The Restriction of Liberty Order and Restricted Movement Requirement (Scotland) Regulations 2011(1) are revoked.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995;

“curfew condition” has the meaning assigned to it by section 12AB(1) of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993(2);

“G4S Monitoring Technologies” means G4S Monitoring Technologies Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Acts under number 2626613 and having its registered office at Southside, 105 Victoria Street, London, SW1E 6QT;

“movement restriction condition” has the meaning assigned to it by section 70(11) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995;

“offender” means a person subject to a requirement to which regulation 4 applies, or a person subject to a curfew condition;

“place of curfew” means a place that is specified in a requirement to which regulation 4 applies, or in a curfew condition, as a place which the offender is required to be in or, as the case may be, not be in;

“restricted movement requirement” has the meaning assigned to it by section 227ZF(1)(3) of the Act;

“restriction of liberty order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 245A of the Act; and

“Serco Geografix” means Serco Geografix Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Acts under number 3522659 and having its registered office at Serco House, 16 Bartley Wood Business Park, Bartley Way, Hook, Hampshire RG27 9UY.

Prescribed courts

3.—(1) The courts which are prescribed for the purpose of—

(a) making restriction of liberty orders;

(b) imposing requirements under section 234CA(1) of the Act(4); and

(c) imposing requirements under section 230A(1) of the Act(5);

are those listed in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

(2) The courts which are prescribed for the purpose of imposing restricted movement requirements are those listed in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.

Methods of monitoring compliance

4.—(1) This regulation applies to requirements imposed—

(a) in a restriction of liberty order;

(b) in a restricted movement requirement;

(c) under section 234CA(1) of the Act; and

(d) under section 230A(1) of the Act.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), compliance with requirements to which this regulation applies may be monitored by the following methods—

(a) radio and electronic monitoring of an offender’s presence at, or absence from, a place of curfew by means of a regular radio signal transmitted by a transmitter device attached to the offender with the transmitted signal received by a radio receiving and monitoring device located at the place of curfew, with the relevant information received and processed by said radio receiving and monitoring device periodically passed by telephone line to a central computer at a monitoring centre;

(b) radio and electronic monitoring of an offender’s presence at, or absence from, a place of curfew by a mobile receiver which receives radio signals transmitted by a transmitter device attached to the offender;

(c) monitoring the offender’s whereabouts by periodic telephone calls to the offender at a particular location with secondary verification of the identity of the offender by verification against stored personal details; and

(d) monitoring the offender’s whereabouts by random visits to the offender’s place of curfew during periods of restriction.

(3) The methods of monitoring set out in (2)(b), (c) and (d) shall not be used unless it is not reasonably practicable to use the method set out in (2)(a), except that the method set out in (2)(c) may be used as a back-up method of monitoring where the method set out in (2)(a) is also being used.

Specified devices

5.  The devices specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations may be used for the purpose of—

(a) remotely monitoring the compliance of an offender with a requirement to which regulation 4 applies;

(b) remotely monitoring the compliance of an offender with a requirement imposed in a curfew condition; and

(c) monitoring the compliance of a child with a restriction imposed in a movement restriction condition.

Amendment of the Intensive Support and Monitoring (Scotland) Regulations 2008

6.  The Intensive Support and Monitoring (Scotland) Regulations 2008(6) are amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2 (interpretation), the definition of “Serco Geografix” is omitted;

(b) regulation 9 (specified devices which may be used for the purpose of monitoring compliance with requirements of a movement restriction condition) is omitted; and

(c) the Schedule is omitted.

KENNY MACASKILL

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

10th January 2013