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

54 Long-term prisoners due for removal from the UK S

(1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3) of section 1, for the words from “his” to the end there is substituted “ the prisoner's sentence, the Scottish Ministers must release the prisoner on licence if recommended to do so by the Parole Board ”.

(3) Subsection (1) of section 9 is repealed.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 54 in force at 1.10.2020 by S.S.I. 2020/283, reg. 2(p)