Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001

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31This Part of this schedule applies to an existing life prisoner—

(a)in respect of whom, before the relevant date, the Parole Board has recommended a provisional release date on which the prisoner should be released on licence under the 1989 Act or the 1993 Act;

(b)whose case has not been the subject of a hearing under paragraph 12 above; and

(c)to whose release neither the Lord Justice General, whom failing the Lord Justice Clerk, nor, if available, the trial judge objects.