Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/7/schedule/part/4
Timestamp: 2020-05-26 13:13:04
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Matched Legal Cases: ['ART 4', 'ART 4', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art 3', 'art. 2', 'art. 2', 'art 1', 'art. 2', 'art 3']

There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Convention Rights (Compliance) (Scotland) Act 2001, PART 4 .
PART 4 S TRANSFERRED LIFE PRISONERS
49SThis Part of this schedule applies to—
(a)a life prisoner to whom subsection (1) of section 10 of the 1993 Act applied and in respect of whom the Secretary of State has issued a certificate under section 28(4) of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 (c.43);
[F149ASThis Part of this schedule also applies to—
(ii)as at the relevant date, a life prisoner such as is mentioned in any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of paragraph 49 above (the references in those sub-paragraphs to that section being construed as references to that section as it had effect on that date).]
F1Sch. Pt. 4 para. 49A inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 39(b)(i), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.
50SIn this Part of this schedule—
“existing transferred life prisoner” means a life prisoner to whom this Part of this schedule applies by virtue of paragraph 49 [F2or 49A] above;
F2Word in Sch. Pt. 4 para. 50 inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 39(b)(ii), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.
51SThe Scottish Ministers shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after the relevant date, refer the case of an existing transferred life prisoner to the High Court of Justiciary for a hearing under paragraph 59 below.
52SThe Scottish Ministers shall not so refer the case of an existing transferred life prisoner to whom Part 3 of this schedule applies if the prisoner has, under paragraph 54 below, waived the entitlement to such a hearing.
53SThe Scottish Ministers shall not so refer the case of an existing transferred life prisoner to whom paragraph 49(c) above applies [F3, to whom sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph 49A above applies (whether or not paragraph 49(b) above also applies to the prisoner) or to whom sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 49A above applies (in so far as that sub-paragraph relates to paragraph 49(c) above)] if the prisoner—
F3Word in Sch. Pt. 4 para. 53 inserted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 39(b)(iii), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.
54SAn existing transferred life prisoner [F4such as is mentioned in paragraph 52 or 53 above] may waive the entitlement to a hearing under paragraph 59 below provided—
F4Words in Sch. Pt. 4 para. 54 substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 39(b)(iv), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.
55SNotwithstanding paragraph 51 above, an existing transferred life prisoner—
56SThe Scottish Ministers shall, no later than two weeks after the referral of an existing transferred life prisoner’s case under paragraph 51 or 55 above, send the documents and other information mentioned in paragraph 57 below to—
57SThe documents and other information referred to in paragraph 56 above are—
58SA report prepared by the trial judge—
59SThere shall be a hearing, at which the High Court of Justiciary shall make the order referred to in paragraph 60 below.
60SThat order is an order specifying a part of the sentence which the court considers would have been specified as the punishment part under subsection (2) of section 2 of the 1993 Act, if—
61SIt shall not be a ground of appeal in relation to the part of the sentence specified in the order made under paragraph 59 above that the court had regard to—
62SThe court shall pronounce the order under paragraph 59 above in open court.
63SIf the court is satisfied that the existing transferred life prisoner is incapable of properly instructing a solicitor in relation to the hearing under paragraph 59 above, whether or not the prisoner has so instructed a solicitor, it shall not make the order under that paragraph.
64SIf the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that the prisoner is no longer incapable of instructing a solicitor in relation to the hearing under paragraph 59 above, they shall, as soon as reasonably practicable thereafter, refer the case of the prisoner to the court for such a hearing.
65SNothing in this Part of this schedule shall be taken as preventing a prisoner, in respect of whom the court declined, under paragraph 63 above, to make the order under paragraph 59 above, from again referring his or her case for a hearing under paragraph 59 above.
66SWhere the court has made an order under paragraph 59 above—
[F567SIn the case of a prisoner to whom paragraph 53 above applies, Part 1 of the 1993 Act (except subsection (9) of section 2) as amended by this Act shall apply as if—
(b)the part of the prisoner’s sentence specified in the certificate referred to in sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph 57 above were a punishment part specified under subsection (2) of that section.]
F5Sch. Pt. 4 para. 67 substituted (27.6.2003) by Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 7), ss. 39(b)(v), 89; S.S.I. 2003/288, art. 2, Sch.
68SA hearing under paragraph 59 above shall be criminal procedure for the purposes of section 305 of the 1995 Act (power of High Court of Justiciary to regulate criminal procedure by Act of Adjournal).
69SThe court, in considering the case of an existing transferred life prisoner—
70SIn the case of an existing transferred life prisoner—
71SThe references in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 70 above to sections 2 and 17 of the 1993 Act are references to those sections as they had effect immediately before the relevant date.
72SAn existing transferred life prisoner to whom paragraph 49(b) above applies and who, before the relevant date, has been or is released on licence (otherwise than under section 3 of the 1993 Act (release on compassionate grounds)) shall, at the relevant date, be deemed to have been released on licence under section 2(4) of the 1993 Act as if that prisoner had been a life prisoner to whom that section applied and who had served the punishment part of his or her sentence.
73SWhere such an existing transferred life prisoner released on licence is treated by virtue of paragraph 72 above as a prisoner whose licence was granted under section 2(4) of the 1993 Act, the validity of his or her licence shall not be affected by the absence in the licence of such a condition as is specified in section 12(2) of that Act.
74SPart 3 of this schedule applies to an existing transferred life prisoner to whom paragraph 49(b) above applies as it applies to an existing life prisoner of the kind mentioned in paragraph 31 above with the substitution in paragraph 31(b) above of a reference to a hearing under paragraph 59 above for the reference to a hearing under paragraph 12 above.