The Parole Board (Scotland) Rules 2001

PART V REVOCATION, TRANSITIONAL AND SAVING PROVISION

Revocation, saving and transitional provision

29.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the 1993 Rules and the 1995 Rules are hereby revoked.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3)–

(a) the 1993 Rules shall continue to apply to the case of a person referred to the Board before 8th October 2001, and in respect of whom the Board has not before that date made a decision under rule 16 or 27 thereof; and

(b) the 1995 Rules shall continue to apply to the case of a person referred to the Board before 8th October 2001, and in respect of whom the Board has not before that date made a decision under rule 15 thereof.

(3) Paragraph (2) shall not apply in the case of a person who, before 8th October 2001, is–

(a) released under section 26(1) of the 1989 Act;

(b) recalled to prison under section 28(1) of that Act; and

(c) whose case is referred to the Parole Board under section 28(4) of that Act,

and in respect of whose case the Board has not made a decision under rule 15 of the 1995 Rules before that date.

(4) In the case of a person to whom paragraph (3) applies, anything done under rule 4, 5 or 7 of the 1995 Rules shall, for the purposes of these Rules, be treated as if done under the corresponding rule of these Rules.