# The Scotland Act 1998 (Modifications of Schedules 4 and 5) Order 1999, Article 4: Interception of communications


(1) In Part II of Schedule 5 to the Act (specific reservations), in Section B8, after “but not” there is inserted–
“(a) the interception of any communication made to or by a person detained at a place of detention, if the communication-
(i) is a written communication and is intercepted there, or
(ii) is intercepted in the course of its transmission by means of a private telecommunication system running there,”.
(b)
(2) At the end of that Section there is inserted–
“Interpretation
“Place of detention” means a prison, young offenders institution, remand centre or legalised police cell (as those expressions are defined for the purposes of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 or a hospital (within the meaning of the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984; and “person detained”, in relation to a hospital, means a person detained there within the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Sex Offenders Act 1997as it extends to Scotland.
“Private telecommunication system” means a telecommunication system which is not a public telecommunication system (as those expressions are defined for the purposes of the Telecommunications Act 1984”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1749/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998-modifications-of-schedules-4-and-5-order-1999/article-4
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