Section 3: Eligibility for release on licence of terrorist prisoners: Scotland
Section 3 sets the same parameters for release of terrorist offenders in Scotland, via amendment to the Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993. For specified terrorist offences it places a duty on the Scottish Ministers to refer offenders to the Parole Board from the two-thirds point of their sentence.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new section 1AB into the 1993 Act, setting out that where a prisoner (other than one serving a life sentence) is serving a sentence in respect of terrorist and terrorist-related offences set out in new Schedule 1A (inserted by subsection (3)), the Scottish Ministers must refer them to the Parole Board from the two-thirds point of the sentence or, where they have previously been referred, no later than two years following the last such reference.