Reporting and planning Part 2 - Confinement and Release of Prisoners Life Prisoners Section 25 - Further referral to Parole Board
57.This section provides that where the Parole Board fixes a date under section 24(2)(b) the Scottish Ministers must, subject to section 26 (which is explained below), refer the case before that date to allow the Board to consider the case. The Board is to determine whether the prisoner would be likely to cause the public serious harm if not confined.