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SCHEDULE 26Minor and consequential amendments

Part 2Other amendments

Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 9)

I130

In section 10 of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (life prisoners transferred to Scotland), after subsection (4) insert—

4A

The reference in subsection (4)(b) above to a person who has been transferred to Scotland in pursuance of a warrant under the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 includes a reference to a person who is detained in Scotland in pursuance of a warrant issued by the Scottish Ministers under section 4A of that Act (warrant transferring responsibility for detention and release of offender).

4B

Such a person is to be taken to have been transferred when the warrant under section 4A of that Act was issued in respect of that person.