Part IV Miscellaneous and General

Application to particular countries and territories

123 Scotland.

1

The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purpose of the application of this Act to Scotland.

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3

In section forty-eight, the expression “manslaughter” means culpable homicide.

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5

In section eighty-two, in subsection (1), for the reference to F4the Coroners Acts 1887 to 1926F4the Coroners Act 1988, there shall be substituted a reference to section twenty-five of the M1Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952, and in subsection (3) the reference to sections thirty-nine to forty-two of the M2Prison Act 1952, shall include a reference to section thirty of the M3Prisons (Scotland) Act 1952.

6

In section ninety-eight, the expression “chattel” means corporeal moveable.

7

In subsection (5) of section one hundred and one, the expression “putative father” means the person proved or admitted to be the father.

8

In subsection (2) of section one hundred and six, for the words from “and that officer” to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words “who shall report the matter to the procurator fiscal”.

9

In subsection (4) of section one hundred and nine, for the words from the beginning to “such proceedings” there shall be substituted the words “For the purposes of any proceedings under this section”.

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Where by virtue of this Act a document is admissible in evidence or is evidence of any matter stated in it in proceedings before a civil court in England, it shall be sufficient evidence of the matter so stated in such proceedings in Scotland.