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Under the current regulations, if someone is 86 but they put down a date of birth that brings them out as being 85, that is a clear failure and the vote will not be counted.
Amendment 8 removes the upper limit completely, which will make it competent for sheriff officers to serve the warrant citing the individual on any day from the date the sheriff grants the warrant up to six days before the hearing date.
We reckon that we will consider release decisions about six weeks before the halfway point of the sentence—the parole qualifying date—which means that six weeks will elapse between the decision being made and the release date.
We expect to receive those plans for further analysis by the October recess. The integration authorities have devolved responsibility for health and social care in their areas.
If that were so, we would need to seek authority to carry stage 2 forward until after recess. I ask all members to keep their comments as short and pithy as possible.
We have touched on the point about survivors becoming perpetrators themselves. Over the Christmas recess, I read “The War on Women” by the late Sue Lloyd-Roberts.
It will, of course, be for the Session 7 Committee to decide their own work programme but we have provided a short summary of work to date on each of the open petitions along with a recommendation for further action.