70(1)Section 16 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 (discharge of prisoners) which, notwithstanding its repeal by the M1Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993, is an “existing provision” for the purposes of Schedule 6 to that Act of 1993, shall for those purposes be amended as follows.S
(2)In subsection (1), for the words “or Sunday” there shall be substituted the words “ Sunday or public holiday ”.
(3)At the end there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(3)For the purposes of this section “public holiday” means any day on which, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, public offices or other facilities likely to be of use to the prisoner in the area in which he is likely to be following his discharge from prison will be closed.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 8 para. 70 wholly in force; Sch. 8 para. 70 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 121; In force at 30.9.1998 by S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(2) (subject to savings in arts. 5-8)
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