{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-scotland-amendment-rules-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-scotland-amendment-rules-1997/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2317",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Board (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-scotland-amendment-rules-1997",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Rules",
  "text": "For rule 5(2) there shall be substituted the following rule:–\n“(2) In relation to a Part IV case–\n(a) which is referred to the Board before 20th April 1998; and\n(b) where the person concerned is a prisoner who is treated as a designated life prisoner under or by virtue of section 16(2) to (4) of the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997,\nparagraph (1) shall apply as if there were substituted for the reference to 2 weeks a reference to 12 weeks.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1997 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2317/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:51:12.182048+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}