Paragraph 9

Scotland

In relation to any person who—

(a)

having been sentenced to a term of preventive detention is at the commencement of this Act absent from prison by virtue of a licence granted under section fourteen of the M1Prevention of Crime Act 1908; or

(b)

is at the commencement of this Act subject to the supervision of the police pursuant to the direction of any court under section eight of the M2Prevention of Crimes Act 1871,

the provisions of section twenty–one of the M3Firearms Act 1937 shall have effect as originally enacted and not as amended by this Act.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1908 c. 59.
M2: 1871 c. 112.
M3: 1937 c. 12.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 40, ss. 6, 7(2), Sch. 5 (with Sch. 3 para. 1, 3, 16)