Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 17)

SCHEDULE 3 Sentences framed to run consecutively

Effect of sentences framed to take effect consecutively

3 (1) This paragraph applies where—

(a) the court imposes a custody-only sentence as a further sentence,

(b) the court frames the sentence to take effect in accordance with paragraph 1(2) or (3), and

(c) the prisoner’s previous sentence (or one of the prisoner’s previous sentences) is a custody and community sentence.

(2) In determining the date on which the previous sentence expires, no account is to be taken of the period of confinement served under the further sentence.