123 Scotland.F5U.K.
(1)The provisions of this section shall have effect for the purpose of the application of this Act to Scotland.
(2) . . . F1
(3)In section forty-eight, the expression “manslaughter” means culpable homicide.
F2(4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5)In section eighty-two, in subsection (1), for the reference to [F3the Coroners Acts 1887 to 1926][F3the 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”.
[F4(10)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.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 123(2) repealed by Armed Forces Act 1966 (c. 45), Sch. 5
F2S. 123(4) repealed (11.5.2001) by 2001 c. 19, s. 38, Sch. 7 Pt. 4
F3 “the Coroners Act 1988” substituted (E.W.) for “the Coroners Acts 1887 to 1926” by Coroners Act 1988 (c. 13, SIF 33), s. 36(1), Sch. 3 para. 13
F4S. 123(10) added by Armed Forces Act 1971 (c. 33), s. 76
Marginal Citations
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F5Act repealed (prosp.) by Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52), ss. 378, 383, Sch. 17 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual provisions