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Draft Regulations laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 45 of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

Prisons

Made 2025

Coming into force 20th October 2025

The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3AA(6)(b) and (c) of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993^f1 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

In accordance with section 45(3)^f2 of that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.

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Footnotes

f1: 1993 c. 9. Section 3AA was inserted by section 15(5) of the Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 14) and was amended by the Home Detention Curfew Licence (Amendment of Specified Days) (Scotland) Order 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/126), the Home Detention Curfew Licence (Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/416), the Terrorist Offenders (Restriction of Early Release) Act 2020 (c. 3) and the Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 1). Subsection (6)(b) was substituted by the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14).
f2: Section 45(3) was inserted by section 15(14) of the Management of Offenders etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 14). Section 45(3) has been modified by paragraph 5 of schedule 3 of the Interpretation and Legislative Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 10).