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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-1994/article-133",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/1931",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-1994",
  "path": "article/133",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "133",
  "heading": "Constitution of visiting committees",
  "text": "(1) On and after 1st January 1995 there shall be a visiting committee constituted in accordance with this rule for each prison specified in column 1 of Schedule 4 to these Rules.\n(2) The members of a visiting committee for each prison specified in column 1 of Schedule 4 shall be appointed in accordance with this rule by the regional council and district council specified in column 2 of that Schedule in relation to that prison and each such council shall appoint the number of members of the committee specified in column 3 of that Schedule in relation to that council.\n(3) Not less than one-third of the total number of members required to be appointed under paragraph (2) to a visiting committee shall be persons who are not members of the council which appoints them.\n(4) Any person with a direct financial interest in any contract for the supply of goods or services to the prison or any other prison shall not be eligible for appointment to the visiting committee for that prison.\n(5) The member or members of a visiting committee to be appointed by a council in terms of paragraph (2) shall be appointed with effect from 1st January 1995 at a meeting of the council held at any time prior to that date.\n(6) A member of a visiting committee shall cease to hold office if–\n(a) he resigns;\n(b) either the council who appointed the member or the Secretary of State terminate the member’s appointment if either is satisfied that–\n(i) the member has failed satisfactorily to perform his duties;\n(ii) the member is for any other reason incapable of carrying out his duties;\n(iii) subsequent to his appointment, the member has been convicted of such a criminal offence, or his conduct has been such, that it is not fitting that he should remain a member; or\n(iv) the member has a direct financial ifi nterest contrary to the terms of rule 140; or\n(c) having been appointed a member whilst also a member of the council, the council terminate his appointment by reason of his having ceased to be a member of the council.\n(7) The chairman of a visiting committee shall report to the council responsible for appointing any member of the visiting committee any circumstances which he considers might reasonably give cause for termination in terms of paragraph (6) of the appointment of the member appointed by that council.\n(8) If for any reason the requisite number of members of a visiting committee is not appointed at the proper time in terms of paragraph (5), or if for any cause a vacancy occurs in a visiting committee, the council responsible for the appointment may at any time and as soon as possible after the vacancy occurs appoint a person to fill the vacancy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am",
      "affecting": "ssi/2002/107",
      "affecting_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1931/article/133",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:28:57.887435+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."
}