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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998/schedule-8/paragraph-27",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/46",
  "legislation_title": "Scotland Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scotland-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989 is amended as follows.\n(2) Section 2 of that Act (appointment of officers etc.) is omitted.\n(3) In section 3(1) (prison officers), for the words following “Secretary of State” there is substituted—\n“(1A) Every prison shall have a governor and such other officers as may be necessary.”\n(4) In section 3A (medical services)—\n(a) in subsection (2), for “appointing” there is substituted “ providing ” and for “appointment” there is substituted “ provision ”, and\n(b) in subsection (4), for “appointed” there is substituted “ provided ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/schedule/8/paragraph/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:33:08.185252+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."
}