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

PART 4 S Prisoners: control of release, being unlawfully at large, etc.

Control of release, etc. S

48 Release on licence under section 3AA of the 1993 Act S

(1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows.

(2) In section 3AA, in subsection (2), for the words from “whichever” to the end there is substituted “ one quarter of the prisoner's sentence ”.

(3) In section 3AA, for subsection (6)(b) there is substituted—

“(b) amend a period for the time being specified in subsection (2) above (which may be done by amending the subsection to describe a period as a particular length of time or a proportion of a prisoner's sentence),”.”.

(4) In section 3AA, after subsection (6) there is inserted—

“(7) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this section requires the Parole Board to make a decision by a particular date about whether to recommend that a long-term prisoner be released having served one-half of the prisoner's sentence.”.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 48 in force at 11.10.2019 by S.S.I. 2019/309, reg. 2, sch.