{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1999/article-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/374",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of rule 15 of the principal Rules",
  "text": "(1) Rule 15 of the principal Rules (accommodation of prisoners in cells and rooms) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this rule.\n(2) In paragraph (2) for sub-paragraph (b) there is substituted the following sub-paragraph:–\n“(b) either the Governor, or a medical officer with the consent of the Governor, instructs this.”.\n(3) In paragraph (3) for the words “the medical officer”, there are substituted the words “, or a medical officer on medical grounds,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/374/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:01:32.376672+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."
}