{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011/article-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011/article-68.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/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Visits by ... constables",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a ... constable ... may visit or see a prisoner for one or more of the following purposes—\n(a) to interview the prisoner, provided the prisoner is willing to be interviewed;\n(b) to identify the prisoner;\n(c) to charge the prisoner with an offence.\n(2) A ... constable may only visit or see a prisoner under paragraph (1) on production of the written authority of a procurator fiscal or a chief inspector of the Police Service of Scotland.\n(3) A visit to a prisoner in terms of paragraph (1)(a) may take place in such area of the prison and under such conditions as the Governor may specify except that such a visit must take place—\n(a) within the sight of an officer; and\n(b) outwith the hearing of an officer unless the prisoner or the visitor requests otherwise.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 68(1)(2) and cross-heading omitted (24.3.2016) by virtue of The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/131), rules 1, 2(11)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 68(1) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/119), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 39(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 68(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/119), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 39(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 68(2) substituted (24.3.2016) by The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/131), rules 1, 2(11)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/331/article/68",
    "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."
}