Reporting and planning Part 2 - Confinement and Release of Prisoners Custody and community prisoners Section 8 – Provision of information by court
33.Section 8 requires a court to produce a report when imposing custody and community sentence. In terms of subsection (2), the court must provide the Scottish Ministers with information about the person and the circumstances of the case as soon as is reasonably practicable. Subsection (3) provides that the court provide the information in a format it deems appropriate.