The Scotland Act 1998 (Functions Exercisable in or as Regards Scotland) Order 1999

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order–

“the 1949 Act” means the Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949(1)

“the 1984 Act” means the Repatriation of Prisoners Act 1984(2)

“the 1985 Act” means the Interception of Communications Act 1985(3)

“the 1989 Act” means the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989(4)

“the 1991 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 1991(5)

“the 1993 Act” means the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993(6)

“the 1997 Act” means the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997(7)

“the 1998 Act” means the Scotland Act 1998;

“the 1998 Order” means the Transfer of Prisoners (Restricted Transfers) (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) Order 1998(8)

“existing provisions” has the same meaning as in Schedule 6 to the 1993 Act;

“Scottish fishing boat” means a fishing vessel which is registered in the register maintained under section 8 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1995(9) and whose entry in the register specifies a port in Scotland as the port to which the vessel is to be treated as belonging;

“the Guernsey enactments” means the Prison Administration (Guernsey) Law, 1949, the Parole Review Committee (Guernsey) Law, 1989, the Criminal Justice (Youth Detention) (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 1990, the Parole Review Committee Ordinance, 1991 and the Prison Administration (Guernsey) Ordinance, 1998;

“the Isle of Man enactments” means the Custody Act 1995 (an Act of Tynwald);

“the Jersey enactments” means the Prison (Jersey) Law, 1957, the Prison (Jersey) Rules 1957, the Criminal Justice (Jersey) Law, 1957, the Court of Appeal (Jersey) Law, 1961, the Criminal Proceedings (Computation of Sentences) (Jersey) Rules, 1968 and the Criminal Justice (Young Offenders) (Jersey) Law 1994;

“the Northern Ireland enactments” means the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953(10), the Treatment of Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1976, the Northern Ireland (Remission of Sentences) Act 1995(11), the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and the Northern Ireland (Sentences) Act 1998(12);

“restricted transfer” has the meaning given in paragraph 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to the 1997 Act.

(2) Any word or expression used in this Order in referring to any enactment and also used in the enactment has the same meaning as it has in the enactment.

(1)

1949 c. 54.

(2)

1984 c. 47.

(3)

1985 c. 56.

(4)

1989 c. 45.

(5)

1991 c. 53.

(6)

1993 c. 9.

(7)

1997 c. 43.

(8)

S.I. 1998/2798.

(9)

1995 c. 21.

(10)

1953 c. 18 (N.I.).

(11)

1995 c. 47.

(12)

1998 c. 35.