{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-1994/article-134",
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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/134",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "134",
  "heading": "Proceedings of visiting committees",
  "text": "(1) At the first meeting of a visiting committee, the members shall–\n(a) elect from the membership, a chairman and a deputy chairman each for a period of 3 years, and thereafter shall fill any vacancy in that office promptly; and\n(b) appoint a person (not being an officer of the Secretary of State) to act as a clerk to the Committee.\n(2) The chairman of the visiting committee shall report to the Secretary of State the names and addresses of the members of the committee immediately after the first meeting and, thereafter, whenever a change in these details or in the membership occurs.\n(3) The visiting committee for a prison shall meet at the prison at least once in every period of 3 months.\n(4) A visiting committee may appoint from its membership sub-committees and may delegate specific duties to any such sub-committee for the purpose of carrying out its functions.\n(5) A visiting committee shall fix a quorum of not less than one-third of the total number of members required to be appointed to that committee for the purpose of its proceedings, and for the proceedings of any sub-committee appointed under paragraph (4).\n(6) The proceedings of a visiting committee shall not be invalidated by any vacancy in the membership or any defect in the appointment of a member.\n(7) A visiting committee shall keep minutes of its proceedings and shall send a copy of such minutes to the Governor and to the Secretary of State.",
  "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/134",
    "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."
}