[210B Risk assessment order]
Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (1995 c 46) | Legislation

[Risk assessment]

[210B  Risk assessment order]

[(1)     This subsection applies where it falls to the High Court to impose sentence on a person convicted of an offence other than murder and that offence—

(a)     is (any or all)—

(i)     a sexual offence (as defined in section 210A(10) of this Act);

(ii)     a violent offence (as so defined);

(iii)     an offence which endangers life; or

(b)     is an offence the nature of which, or circumstances of the commission of which, are such that it appears to the court that the person has a propensity to commit any such offence as is mentioned in sub-paragraphs

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