Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14)

PART 4 Prisoners: control of release, being unlawfully at large, etc.

Control of release, etc.

54 Long-term prisoners due for removal from the UK

(1) The 1993 Act is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (3) of section 1, for the words from “his” to the end there is substituted “the prisoner’s sentence, the Scottish Ministers must release the prisoner on licence if recommended to do so by the Parole Board”.

(3) Subsection (1) of section 9 is repealed.