Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48)

SCHEDULES

Prospective

SCHEDULE 2 S Transitional provisions with respect to early release

6 Subject to paragraph 8 below, where a new sentence is to run consecutively to an old sentence, the new sentence shall begin—

(a) where the old sentence was or is for less than four years, at the expiry of one half of that sentence; and

(b) subject to paragraph 7 below, where the old sentence was or is for four years or more, at the expiry of two thirds of that sentence