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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7Minor and Consequential Amendments

The Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c.80)

17In section 60(8X6) (release on licence), for the words "in a young offenders institution as defined in section 31(1)(d) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952 " there shall be substituted the words " under section 207 or 415 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 ".

18In section 61 (release on licence of persons sentenced to imprisonment for life etc.), in subsection (4) for paragraphs (a) and (b) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs—

(a)in subsection (1) for the words from ' section' to the end there shall be substituted the words ' section 205(2) or (3) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (persons under 21 convicted of murder): but shall not release on licence such a person except after consultation with the Lord Justice General together with the trial judge if available.';

(b)subsection (3) shall be omitted..

19In section 62 (revocation of licences, etc.)—

(a)in subsection (11), for the words "206" there shall be substituted the words " 205(2) "; and

(b)after subsection (11) there shall be added the following subsection—

(12)This section shall have effect, in its application to a person sentenced to be detained under section 205(3), 207 or 415 of the said Act of 1975 (detention of young offenders) as if for any reference to a prison there were substituted a reference to a young offenders institution..

20In section 64(2)(a) (conditions in licences of persons transferred from another part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man), for the words " section 60 " there shall be substituted the words " sections 60 and 61 ".