Explanatory Notes

Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007

2007 asp 17

19 April 2007

Commentary on Parts

Part 2 - Confinement and Release of Prisoners

Chapter 7 .Application of Part 2 to Certain Persons
Section 54 - Persons detained under mental health provisions

119.This section provides that Part 2 of the Act applies to the following categories of prisoner as if they had continued to serve their sentence in prison rather than in a hospital: