SP Bill 5 Session 6 (2021) 2 Miners’ Strike (Pardons) (Scotland) Bill 3 Pardons: supplementary Section 1 does not— (a) affect any conviction or sentence, (b) give rise to any right, entitlement or liability, or 5 (c) affect the Royal prerogative of mercy. 4 Interpretation In this Act— “conviction” includes any finding in criminal proceedings that a person has committed an offence or done the act or made the omission charged (including a 10 finding linked with mental disorder or in respect of which an admonition or 1 absolute discharge is made), and “convicted” is to be construed accordingly, “miner” means a person, including a deceased person, who at any time during the period beginning with 12 March...