86 Extended sentences for sex and violent offenders
Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (1998 c 37) | Legislation

Chapter II
Scotland

Sexual or violent offenders

86  Extended sentences for sex and violent offenders

(1)     After section 210 of the 1995 Act there shall be inserted the following section—

“210A Extended sentences for sex of a sexual or violent offenders

(1)     Where a person is convicted on indictment of a sexual or violent offence, the court may, if it—

(a)     intends, in relation to—

(i)     a sexual offence, to pass a determinate sentence of imprisonment; or

(ii)     a violent offence, to pass such a sentence for a term of four years or more; and

(b)     considers that the period (if any) for which the offender would, apart from this section, be subject to a licence would not be adequate for the purpose of protecting the public from serious harm from the offender,

pass an extended sentence on the offender.

(2)     An extended sentence is a sentence of imprisonment which is the aggregate of—

(a)     the term of imprisonment (“the custodial term”) which the court would have passed on the offender otherwise than by virtue of this section; and

(b)     a further period (“the extension period”) for which the offender is to be subject to a licence

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