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  "legislation": "ssi/2011/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2011",
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  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Use of nicotine vapour products",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), prisoners may only use a nicotine vapour product in the following areas of a prison—\n(a) in a cell or room in which a single prisoner is accommodated;\n(b) subject to paragraph (2), in a cell or room in which two or more prisoners are accommodated; or\n(c) in the open air, in any place specified in a direction by the Scottish Ministers.\n(2) Prisoners must not use a nicotine vapour product in a cell or room which—\n(a) accommodates two or more prisoners; and\n(b) has been designated by the Governor, in accordance with any direction given by the Scottish Ministers, as a cell in which nicotine vapour products are not to be used.\n(3) Before commencing a check of a cell or a room the Governor may instruct a prisoner that, for a period starting 30 minutes before the check is to proceed and ending when the check is complete, the prisoner must—\n(a) not use a nicotine vapour product in the cell or room; and\n(b) open any windows or vents in the cell or room.\n(4) No person may use a nicotine vapour product in the facilities provided in a prison for mothers and babies.\n(5) In this rule, and in paragraph 26 of schedule 1, to “use a nicotine vapour product” means to inhale the vapour from a nicotine vapour product.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 36 substituted (30.11.2018) by The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2018 (S.S.I. 2018/293), rules 1, 2(3)"
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