PART 1 PRISONERS AND PAROLE

2 Amendment of Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

1

In section 205 (punishment for murder) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c.46) (in this Act, “the 1995 Act”)—

a

in subsection (1), after “subsections (2) and (3)” there is inserted “ and section 205D ”; and

b

subsections (4) to (6) are repealed.

2

After section 205 of the 1995 Act there is inserted—

205D Only one sentence of imprisonment for life to be imposed in any proceedings

Where a person is convicted on the same indictment of more than one offence for which the court must impose or would, apart from this section, have imposed a sentence of imprisonment for life, only one such sentence shall be imposed in respect of those offences.