Version Superseded: 22/04/2013
Point in time view as at 01/12/2003. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, Section 122 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 04 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)Where a person has on conviction been sentenced to payment of a fine and in default of payment to imprisonment, the person lawfully authorised to receive the fine shall, on receiving it, retain it until the determination of any appeal in relation to the conviction or sentence.
(2)If a person sentenced to payment of a fine remains in custody in default of payment of the fine he shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Part of this Act, to be a person sentenced to imprisonment.
(3)An appellant who has been sentenced to the payment of a fine, and has paid it in accordance with the sentence, shall, in the event of his appeal being successful, be entitled, subject to any order of the High Court, to the return of the sum paid or any part of it.
(4)A convicted person who has been sentenced to the payment of a fine and has duly paid it shall, if an appeal against sentence by the Lord Advocate [F1or any appeal by the Lord Advocate or the Advocate General for Scotland under paragraph 13(a) of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998]results in the sentence being quashed and no fine, or a lesser fine than that paid, being imposed, be entitled, subject to any order of the High Court, to the return of the sum paid or as the case may be to the return of the amount by which that sum exceeds the amount of the lesser fine.
[F2(5)In subsections (1) and (3) above, “appeal” includes an appeal under paragraph 13(a) of Schedule 6 to the Scotland Act 1998.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Words in s. 122(4) inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042 , arts. 1(2)(a) , 3 , Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(5)(a)
F2 S. 122(5) inserted (6.5.1999) by S.I. 1999/1042 , arts. 1(2)(a) , 3 , Sch. 1 Pt. I para. 13(5)(b)
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