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Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007

Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Act 2007

2007 asp 17

Commentary on Parts

Part 2 - Confinement and Release of Prisoners

Chapter 2 .Confinement, Review and Release of Prisoners
Custody and community prisoners
Section 19 - Release after three-quarters of sentence served

49.Subsection (1) provides that the Scottish Ministers must release the prisoner on a community licence once three-quarters of the sentence have been served. Subsection (2) provides that the obligation to release at the three-quarter point does not apply in the case of an offender who has been recalled to custody in consequence of the revocation of a community licence by virtue of section 37(1) or (4) of the Act.

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