156 Qualifying offenders
Coroners and Justice Act 2009 (2009 c 25) | Legislation

156  Qualifying offenders

(1)     In this Part “qualifying offender” means a person who is within subsection (2) or (3) (or both).

(2)     A person is within this subsection if (whether before or after the commencement of this Part) the person—

(a)     has been convicted by a court in the United Kingdom of an offence,

(b)     has been found not guilty by such a court of an offence by reason of insanity, . . .

[(ba)     has been acquitted by such a court of an offence by reason of the special defence set out in section 51A of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 (c 46), or]

(c)     has been found by such a court to be under a

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