{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1996/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1996/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/32",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1996",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Amendment of rule 95 of the principal Rules",
  "text": "Rule 95 of the principal Rules (reports of breaches of discipline and removal from association) is amended—\n(a) by substituting for paragraph (2) the following paragraph:—\n“(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), where any officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a prisoner has committed a breach of discipline he may, if he considers it appropriate to do so, remove the prisoner from association with other prisoners in general pending the making of a report in terms of paragraph (1) and the adjudication of the charge of breach of discipline.”; and\n(b) by substituting for the word “order” in paragraph (3) the word “removal”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/32/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:54:44.006906+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."
}