Explanatory Notes

Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019

2019 asp 14

30 July 2019

The Structure and a Summary of the Act

Part 4 – Prisoners: Control of Release, Being Unlawfully at Large Etc.

Section 58 – Parole Board recommendations: publication of test

199.Section 58 inserts a new subsection 3B into section 1 of the 1993 Act which requires the Parole Board to publish, by whatever means it sees fit, the test that it will apply in making a recommendation to release a long-term prisoner under subsection (3) of section 1 of the 1993 Act.