OpenLegislation

Section 112 Restriction on consecutive sentences for released prisoners: Scotland.I1

Scotland

After section 204 of the 1995 Act there shall be inserted the following section—

“ Restriction on consecutive sentences for released prisoners.

204A

A court sentencing a person to imprisonment or other detention shall not order or direct that the term of imprisonment or detention shall commence on the expiration of any other such sentence from which he has been released at any time under the existing or new provisions within the meaning of Schedule 6 to the M1Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993.”

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1

1993 c.9.

Commencement

I1

S. 112 wholly in force; S. 112 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 121; In force at 30.9.1998 by S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1) (subject to savings in arts. 5-8)