Counter-Terrorism and Sentencing Act 2021

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51(1)The Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 is amended as follows.U.K.

(2)In section 39(7B) (rules for the management of prisons and other institutions: application in relation to extended sentence)—

(a)after “above to” insert—

(a)a prisoner subject to a sentence under section 205ZA or 205ZC of the 1995 Act (sentences for terrorism offences), the reference to the prisoner's sentence is to be construed as a reference to the appropriate custodial term of the sentence concerned, and

(b)”;

(b)for “the 1995” substitute “ that ”.

(3)In section 40(3)(a) (arrest of absent prisoners: application of section to persons sentenced or ordered to be detained under certain provisions of the 1995 Act), after “205” insert “ , 205ZC(5) ”.