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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-coronavirus-scotland-amendment-rules-2022/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2022/73",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Coronavirus) (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-coronavirus-scotland-amendment-rules-2022",
  "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 30 September 2022.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2020/122."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2022/73/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:51:07.923839+00:00"
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  "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."
}