Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001

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53SThe Scottish Ministers shall not so refer the case of an existing transferred life prisoner to whom paragraph 49(c) above applies [F1, to whom sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 49A above applies (whether or not paragraph 49(b) above also applies to the prisoner) or to whom sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 49A above applies (in so far as that sub-paragraph relates to paragraph 49(c) above)] if the prisoner—

(a)has, under paragraph 54 below, waived the entitlement to such a hearing; or

(b)has served the part of the sentence specified in the certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 57 below issued in respect of that prisoner.