Explanatory Notes

Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019

2019 asp 14

30 July 2019

The Structure and a Summary of the Act

Part 3 – the Parole Board

Membership and appointment

Section 42 – Mandatory categories of member

164.Section 42 amends paragraph 2 of schedule 2 of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (“the 1993 Act”) in relation to the list of persons who must be amongst the members of the Parole Board. Section 42 removes a Lord Commissioner of Justiciary and a registered medical practitioner who is a psychiatrist, from the list of persons who must be included among the members of the Parole Board.