{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-1994/article-2",
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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/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Application to young offenders institutions and young offenders",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Rules apply to young offenders institutions and–\n(a) to persons on whom detention in a young offenders institution has been imposed under section 207(2) or 415(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975; and\n(b) persons sentenced under section 205 of that Act to be detained without limit of time or for life and who are directed or sentenced to be detained in a young offenders institution,\nas they apply to prisons and prisoners; and references in these Rules to prison, prisoner, imprisonment or a sentence of imprisonment shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to young offenders institutions, young offender, detention or a sentence of detention in a young offenders institution respectively.\n(2) The application of these Rules as mentioned in paragraph (1) is subject to the exceptions and modifications set out in Schedule 1.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1975 c. 21; sections 207 and 415 were substituted by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 62), section 45."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 205 was substituted by the said Act of 1980, section 43."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1931/article/2",
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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."
}