Part 1: Sentencing of terrorist offenders Section 9: Reduction in appropriate custodial term for guilty pleas: Scotland
Section 9 inserts a new subsection (1B) and (1C) to section 196 of the 1995 Act to ensure that a guilty plea can be taken into account when setting the sentence, up to 80 per cent of the term otherwise required.
	New subsection (1B) defines that new subsection (1C) applies where the court is imposing on an offender to a sentence of imprisonment for life under section 205ZB, an order for lifelong restriction to which section 205ZB applies to the offender, a serious terrorism sentence of imprisonment under section 205ZA(2) or a serious terrorism sentence of detention under section 205ZA(6) the court may impose as the appropriate custodial term or, as the case may be, specify the punishment part, a term of any length which is not less than 80 per cent of the term otherwise required.