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 52 – Parole Board decisions: consideration of impact on prisoner’s family

186.Section 52 inserts a new subsection 4B into section 20 of the 1993 Act. This provides specific reference that the Parole Boards Rules of procedure may include provision about the Parole Board’s consideration of the “likely impact” of any of its decisions on a prisoners’ family.