Naval Discipline Act 1957

123Scotland

(1)The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purpose of the application of this Act to Scotland.

(2)In subsection (2) of section forty-seven and in subsection (2) of section one hundred and ten, for the reference to a justice of the peace there shall be substituted a reference to the sheriff or to a member of the court, as the case may be.

(3)In section forty-eight, the expression " manslaughter means culpable homicide.

(4)In subsection (2) of section eighty, references to the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 1868, and to section seven of that Act, shall be construed as references to that Act and that section as they apply to Scotland, and for the reference to the sheriff there shall be substituted a reference to the lord provost or provost, or magistrate or magistrates, charged with seeing the sentence of death carried into effect.

(5)In section eighty-two, in subsection (1), for the reference to the Coroners Acts, 1887 to 1926, there shall be substituted a reference to section twenty-five of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1952, and in subsection (3) the reference to sections thirty-nine to forty-two of the Prison Act, 1952, shall include a reference to section thirty of the Prisons (Scotland) Act, 1952.

(6)In section ninety-eight, the expression " chattel" means corporeal moveable.

(7)In subsection (5) of section one hundred and one, the expression " putative father" means the person proved or admitted to be the father.

(8)In subsection (2) of section one hundred and six, for the words from " and that officer " to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " who shall report the matter to the procurator fiscal ".

(9)In subsection (4) of section one hundred and nine, for the words from the beginning to " such proceedings " there shall be substituted the words " For the purposes of any proceedings under this section ".