PART 2CRIMINAL CASES

Making and effect of disposals

39Detention under compulsion orders

1

The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 is amended as follows.

2

In section 57 (disposal of case where accused found not criminally responsible or unfit for trial), in subsection (2)—

a

in paragraph (a), for the words “authorising the detention of the person in a hospital” there is substituted “(whether or not authorising the detention of the person in a hospital)”,

b

for paragraph (b) there is substituted—

b

subject to subsection (4A) below, make a restriction order in respect of the person (that is, in addition to a compulsion order authorising the detention of the person in a hospital);