SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 26Minor and consequential amendments

Part 2Other amendments

Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43)

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(1)

Schedule 2 (repatriation of prisoners to the British Islands) is amended as follows.

(2)

In paragraph 2(2) (as it continues to have effect in relation to persons to whom it applied before 4th April 2005), in the definition of enactments relating to release on licence, after “33(1)(b),” insert “, (1A),”.

(3)

In paragraph 3(2) (as it continues to have effect in relation to persons to whom it applied before 4th April 2005), in the definition of enactments relating to release on licence, after “33(1)(b),” insert “, (1A),”.

(4)

In paragraph 5 (which modifies paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 (c. 47) in its application to certain descriptions of prisoner), after sub-paragraph (1)(b) insert—

“(c)

prisoners detained in Scotland in pursuance of warrants which—

(i)

are issued by the Scottish Ministers under section 4A of the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984 (warrant transferring responsibility for detention and release); and

(ii)

relate to sentences that were imposed before 1 October 1993.”