The Mutual Recognition of Criminal Financial Penalties in the European Union (Scotland) (No. 1) Order 2014

Amendment of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995

8.  In Schedule 12(1)—

(a) in paragraphs 4 and 5, omit the words “to which the financial penalty relates”;

(b) after paragraph 5 insert—

“5A.   The certificate—

(a) is incomplete (including by reason of not being signed, or its contents not being certified as accurate); or

(b) manifestly does not correspond to the decision.”; and

(c) in paragraph 47(1)—

(i) before paragraph (a) insert—

“(za) “certificate” means the certificate referred to in section 223F(1)(a)(i);”;

(ii) after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa) “decision” means the decision to which the certificate relates;”.

(1)

Schedule 12 was inserted by the Mutual Recognition of Criminal Financial Penalties in the European Union (Scotland) Order 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/342).