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Written Question · S3W-38032 · Session 3

Further to the answer to question S3W-36670 by Kenny MacAskill on 25 October 2010, what further consideration it has given the commencement…

Answered Asked by Richard Baker Lab Lodged 2 Dec 2010

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-36670 by Kenny MacAskill on 25 October 2010, what further consideration it has given the commencement of each section of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010.

The answer

Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 9 Dec 2010 · 7 days after it was lodged, on time

In addition to the provisions already in force (as listed in the answer to S3W-36670), further provisions within the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force/will come into force as detailed in the following table.
Section / Schedule reference
| Title of Provision
| Date Coming into Force
| Any Other Comments

Section 14(1) (in part) and (2)
| Community payback orders
| 1 February 2011
| For all purposes apart from inserting section 227ZM into the 1995 Act

Section 14(1) (in part)
| Community payback orders “ annual reports on community payback orders
| 1 April 2011
| For the purpose of inserting section 227ZM into the 1995 Act

Section 16
| Short periods of detention
| 13 December 2010
| For all purposes in respect of offences committed on or after the date specified in column 3

Section 17
| Presumption against short periods of detention
| 1 February 2011
| For all purposes in respect of offences committed on or after the date specified in column 3

Section 20
| Reports about supervised persons
| 1 February 2011
|

Section 21
| Detention of children convicted on indictment
| 1 February 2011
| For all purposes in respect of offences committed on or after the date specified in column 3

Section 23
| Extended sentences for certain sexual offences
| 13 December 2010
| For all purposes in respect of offences committed on or after the date specified in column 3

Section 25
| Offences aggravated by racial or religious prejudice
| 13 December 2010
| For all purposes in respect of offences committed on or after the date specified in column 3

Section 26
| Voluntary intoxication by alcohol: effect in sentencing
| 13 December 2010
| For all purposes in respect of offences committed on or after the date specified in column 3

Section 28
| Involvement in serious organised crime

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S3W-38032 by reference.