An Order for Lifelong Restriction is a sentence that can be imposed by a judge of the High Court of Justiciary on serious violent and sexual offenders in Scotland.
Such an order is an indeterminate sentence that will see the convict subject to indefinite imprisonment and supervision by electronic monitoring for the rest of their lives.
Orders for Lifelong Restriction were implemented by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003, which gives a judge of the High Court of Justiciary the power to impose a sentence for serious violent and sexual offences, that includes the life imprisonment or detention of the offender.
The judge may then issue an Order for Lifelong Restriction, at which point the authority will have to draw up a Risk Management Plan for the offender.
[1][2] Offenders who are in prison as a consequence of an Order for Lifelong Restriction must still have their case for release on licence considered by the Parole Board for Scotland.