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 3 .Community and Life Licences
Life licences
Section 32 - Release on life licence: conditions

69.Where the Parole Board specifies the conditions to be included in a prisoner’s life licence, the Scottish Ministers must include these conditions in the life licence. Subsection (2) also provides that the Scottish Ministers must include the standard conditions specified at section 28 and, if applicable, the supervision conditions specified at section 29. Subsection (3) provides that,the Scottish Ministers may vary or cancel the conditions or include further conditions but only if directed to do so by the Parole Board.