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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-scotland-amendment-rules-1993/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-scotland-amendment-rules-1993/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/2227",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-scotland-amendment-rules-1993",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Prison (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1993 and shall come into force on 1st October 1993.\n(2) In these Rules, “the principal Rules” means the Prison (Scotland) Rules 1952.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1952/565, amended by S.I. 1954/240, 1956/671, 1966/1552, 1970/2013, 1976/1889, 1979/1630, 1981/1222, 1984/2058, 1987/2231 and 1988/537."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/2227/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:50:54.708811+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."
}