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

Crime and Disorder Act 1998 · 1998 c. 37View on legislation.gov.uk

Crime and Disorder Act 1998
- Section 111: Early release in Scotland: two or more sentences.
- Section 113: Deputy authorising officer under Part III of Police Act 1997.

Part V: Miscellaneous and supplemental

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 Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993.

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