PART 4Council Framework Decision 2008/675/JHA on taking account of convictions in the member States of the European Union in the course of new criminal proceedings

Amendment of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010

15.—(1) The Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In section 71 (convictions by courts in other EU member States) omit subsections (2), (3) and (4).

(3) In section 201 (orders and regulations) omit subsection (4)(b).

(4) In paragraph 12 of schedule 4 in the definition of “previous conviction”—

(a)after “or” insert “,where the court considers it to be appropriate,”, and

(b)omit “other”.