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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-1994/schedule-3",
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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": "schedule/3",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "BREACHES OF DISCIPLINE",
  "text": "A prisoner shall be guilty of a breach of discipline if he–\n(a) commits any assault;\n(b) detains any person against his will;\n(c) denies access to any part of the prison to any officer;\n(d) fights with any person;\n(e) intentionally endangers the health or personal safety of others or, by his conduct, is reckless whereby such health or personal safety is endangered;\n(f) intentionally obstructs an officer in the execution of his duty;\n(g) escapes or absconds from prison or from legal custody;\n(h) fails–\n(i) to return to prison when he should return after being temporarily released under Part 14 of these Rules; or\n(ii) to comply with any condition upon which he is so temporarily released;\n(i) has in his possession–\n(i) any article which he is not authorised to have; or\n(ii) a greater quantity of any article than he is authorised to have; or\n(iii) any article in a part of the prison where he is not authorised to have it;\n(j) sells or delivers to any person any article which he is not authorised to have;\n(k) sells or, without permission, delivers to any person any article which he is allowed to have only for his own use;\n(l) takes improperly any article belonging to another person or to the prison;\n(m) intentionally or recklessly sets fire to any part of a prison or any other property, whether or not that property belongs to him;\n(n) destroys or damages any part of a prison or any other property, other than his own;\n(o) absents himself from any place where he is required to be or is present at any place where he is not authorised to be;\n(p) is disrespectful to any officer or any person visiting a prison;\n(q) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour;\n(r) intentionally fails to work properly or, being required to work, refuses to do so;\n(s) disobeys any lawful order;\n(t) disobeys or fails to comply with any rule or regulation applying to a prisoner;\n(u) inhales any substance, or the fumes of any substance, which is a prohibited article or consumes, takes, injects or ingests any substance which is a prohibited article;\n(v) commits any indecent or obscene act; or\n(w) attempts to commit, incites another prisoner to commit, or assists another prisoner to commit or to attempt to commit, any of the foregoing breaches.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1589",
      "affecting_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/32",
      "affecting_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "word inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/374",
      "affecting_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/1931/schedule/3",
    "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."
}