{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011/article-44A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011/article-44A.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011",
  "path": "article/44A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "44A",
  "heading": "Declaration of religion, belief or non-belief",
  "text": "(1) An officer must ask a prisoner upon reception to declare his or her religion, belief or non-belief.\n(2) A prisoner may declare his or her religion, belief or non-belief to an officer at any time.\n(3) A prisoner may change a declaration made under paragraph (2) at any time.\n(4) A prisoner is not obliged to give any information to an officer about having a particular religion, belief or non-belief upon reception or at any other time.\n(5) Where a prisoner declares his or her religion, belief or non-belief under paragraph (2) or (3), the Governor must inform the chaplaincy team of the declaration.\n(6) A prisoner is to be treated as having a particular religion, belief or non-belief for the purposes of these Rules if the prisoner has declared his or her religion, belief or non-belief under paragraph (2) or (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 44A inserted (24.3.2016) by The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/131), rules 1, 2(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/331/article/44A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:48:01.668993+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."
}