Reporting and planning Part 2 - Confinement and Release of Prisoners Chapter 1 .Introductory Section 4 - Basic Definitions
26.This section provides definitions of various terms used in the Act.
27.Subsection (2) gives Scottish Ministers the power to amend, by order, the definitions of “custody and community sentence” and “custody-only sentence” by substituting a different period for the period mentioned (which is 15 days).
28.Subsections (3) and (4) provide that:
	release on community licence is a reference to the release on licence of a custody and community prisoner; and
	release on life licence is a reference to the release on licence of a life prisoner.