Reporting and planning Part 2 - Confinement and Release of Prisoners Custody and community prisoners Section 19 - Release after three-quarters of sentence served
49.Subsection (1) provides that the Scottish Ministers must release the prisoner on a community licence once three-quarters of the sentence have been served. Subsection (2) provides that the obligation to release at the three-quarter point does not apply in the case of an offender who has been recalled to custody in consequence of the revocation of a community licence by virtue of section 37(1) or (4) of the Act.