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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-coronavirus-scotland-amendment-no-2-rules-2020/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-coronavirus-scotland-amendment-no-2-rules-2020/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2020/264",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Rules 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-coronavirus-scotland-amendment-no-2-rules-2020",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2011 (“the Prison Rules”) in response to the coronavirus outbreak.\nRule 2(1) of the Prison Rules is amended to extend the definition of “for the duration of a coronavirus outbreak” to mean the time period starting with the commencement of the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2020 and continuing until 31 March 2021.\nRules 33A, 34A and 35A are omitted from the Prison Rules by rules 2(3) to (5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "SSI 2020/122"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2020/264/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:00:54.299070+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."
}