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Section 204A Restriction on consecutive sentences for released prisoners.F1

Scotland

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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

Textual amendments

F1

S. 204A inserted (30.9.1998) by 1998 c. 37, s. 112; S.I. 1998/2327, art. 2(1)(x)

Marginal citations

M1

1993 c.9.