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Article 59 Opening and reading of other correspondence

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Any letter or package, other than one to which rule 57 or 58 applies, which a prisoner wishes to send or which is addressed to the prisoner may be opened by an officer.

(2)

The contents of any such letter or package may only be read by an officer where the officer considers that they may be, or may contain anything, in contravention of the restrictions specified in any direction by the Scottish Ministers made for the purposes mentioned in rule 60(2).

(3)

Where a letter or package is found to contain anything in contravention of such restrictions, or which the prisoner may not be permitted to receive by virtue of those restrictions, an officer may–

(a)

prevent the letter or package, or anything contained in it, being sent or, as the case may be, received by the prisoner; and

(b)

deal with the letter or package, or anything contained in it, in accordance with such arrangements as may be specified in a direction by the Scottish Ministers for these purposes.