The Parole Board Membership
Schedule 2 of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act
1993 as amended provides that the Board shall consist of a Chairman and not
less than 4 other members appointed by the Scottish Ministers. The appointment
lasts for no more than 6 years. The Board must include among its members:
- a Lord Commissioner of Justiciary;
- a registered medical practitioner who is a psychiatrist;
- a person appearing to Scottish Ministers to have knowledge and experience of the supervision and aftercare of discharged prisoners; and
- a person appearing to Scottish Ministers to have made a study of the causes of delinquency and the treatment of offenders.
At present the Board comprises a Chairman and 20 members. In terms of section 14(2) of the 2001 Rules, the powers of the Board may be exercised by any three members.