Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14)

PART 2 Disclosure of convictions

Rules relating to disclosure

22 Disclosure period: caution for good behaviour

(1) The 1974 Act is amended as follows.

(2) After section 5B (inserted by section 21) there is inserted—

“5C Disclosure period: caution for good behaviour

(1) Subsection (2) applies where, in respect of a conviction, a person was ordained to find caution for good behaviour in respect of a period (“the caution period”).

(2) The disclosure period applicable to the sentence is—

(a) where the person was 18 years of age or older at the date of the conviction, whichever is the longer of—

(i) 6 months from the date of the conviction,

(ii) the length of the caution period,

(b) where the person was under 18 years of age at the date of the conviction, whichever is the longer of—

(i) 3 months from the date of the conviction,

(ii) the length of the caution period.”.