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Changes over time for: Section 56
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Status:
Point in time view as at 08/12/2021.
Changes to legislation:
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000, Section 56.
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Defences to rule 55(10)E+W
56. It shall be a defence for an inmate charged with an offence under rule 55(10) to show that [the controlled drug, pharmacy medicine, prescription only medicine, psychoactive substance or specified substance]—
(a)... ... had been, prior to its administration, lawfully in his possession for his use or was administered to him in the course of a lawful supply of the drug [, medicine or substance] to him by another person;
(b)... ... was administered by or to him in circumstances in which he did not know and had no reason to suspect that such a drug [, medicine or substance] was being administered; or
(c)... ... was administered by or to him under duress or to him without his consent in circumstances where it was not reasonable for him to have resisted.
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