The Mutual Recognition of Supervision Measures in the European Union (Scotland) Regulations 2014

Interpretation of this Schedule

1.—(1) In this Schedule—

“decision on supervision measures” means an enforceable decision issued in the course of criminal proceedings by a competent authority in the issuing State in accordance with its national law and procedures and imposing on a natural person, as an alternative to provisional detention, one or more supervision measures;

“issuing State” means the member State in which the decision on supervision measures in question was issued;

“Scottish central authority” means the Scottish Court Service;

“supervision measure” means an obligation or instruction imposed on a natural person, in accordance with the national law and procedures of the issuing State.

(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, the Scottish central authority is to be regarded as having received a thing from the central authority or competent authority in a member State whether the Scottish central authority receives the thing from the State’s authority directly or indirectly.