Part IX Miscellaneous Amendments: Scotland

133 Extension of categories of prisoner to whom Part I of Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 applies.

In section 10(4) of the M1Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (interpretation of expression “transferred life prisoner”)—

a

in paragraph (a), after the word “Scotland” there shall be inserted the words “ or a court-martial ”; and

b

in paragraph (b)—

i

for the word “(whether” there shall be substituted— “ , or in the case of a sentence imposed by a court martial in Scotland to a prison in Scotland (in either case whether ”;

ii

after sub-paragraph (ii) there shall be inserted—

; or

iii

rules made under section 122(1)(a) of the M2Army Act 1955 (imprisonment and detention rules); or

iv

rules made under section 122(1)(a) of the M3Air Force Act 1955 (imprisonment and detention rules); or

v

a determination made under section 81(3) of the M4Naval Discipline Act 1957 (place of imprisonment or detention),

iii

at the end there shall be added— “ ; and in this subsection “prison” has the same meaning as in the 1989 Act. ”.