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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-2008/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/377",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-amendment-rules-2008",
  "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 2006 (“the principal Rules”).\nRule 95 of the principal Rules provides that a prisoner must not have a prohibited article in their possession whilst in prison. Rule 2(2) of these Rules amends the definition of a prohibited article in rule 5(1) of the principal Rules to include personal communication devices, such as mobile telephones or component parts of mobile telephones.\nSchedule 2 to the principal Rules makes provision for the constitution of visiting committees for prisons. Rule 2(3) of these Rules amends Schedule 2 to provide for the constitution of the visiting committee for Addiewell prison.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/377/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:04:38.887473+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."
}