The Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2006

Modification of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997

2.  Paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (transfer of prisoners within the British Islands)(1) is amended as follows-

(a) in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(2), for the words “247 to 252 and 254 to 264A” substitute “246 to 264A”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (4)(a), for the words “, 249 to 252 and 254” substitute “and 249”.

(1)

1997 c43; paragraph 8 was amended by the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c. 43), Schedule 5, paragraph 9; the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37), Schedule 8, paragraph 1998/2327; the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 (c. 6), Schedule 9, paragraph 186; the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43), Schedule 7, paragraph 143; the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), Schedule 32, paragraph 85; and the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (c. 28), Schedule 10, paragraph 46.

(2)

References to certain provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) which formerly appeared in paragraph 8(2)(a) are the subject of a saving for prisoners serving sentences of imprisonment in respect of offences committed before 4th April 2005, by virtue of paragraph 27 of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No. 8 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/950).