# Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, Section 105: Breaches of discipline by prisoners under escort.


(1) Where a prisoner for whose transfer or custody a prisoner custody officer has been responsible in pursuance of prisoner escort arrangements is delivered to a prison, he shall be deemed, for the purposes of such prison rules as relate to breaches of discipline, to have been—
(a) in the custody of the governor of the prison; or
(b) in the case of a contracted out prison, in the custody of its director,
at all times during the period for which that officer was so responsible, and that officer may bring a charge of breach of such rules as so relate against the prisoner in respect of any such time.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above shall render a prisoner liable to be punished under prison rules for any act or omission of his for which he has already been punished by a court.
(3) In this section “prison rules”, in relation to a prison situated in a part of the British Islands outside Scotland, means rules made under any provision of the law of that part which corresponds to section 39 of the 1989 Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/33/section/105 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-and-public-order-act-1994/section-105
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