Application to young offenders institutions and young offenders
2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Rules apply to young offenders institutions and–
(a)to persons on whom detention in a young offenders institution has been imposed under section 207(2) or 415(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975(1); and
(b)persons sentenced under section 205 of that Act(2) to be detained without limit of time or for life and who are directed or sentenced to be detained in a young offenders institution,
as they apply to prisons and prisoners; and references in these Rules to prison, prisoner, imprisonment or a sentence of imprisonment shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to young offenders institutions, young offender, detention or a sentence of detention in a young offenders institution respectively.
(2) The application of these Rules as mentioned in paragraph (1) is subject to the exceptions and modifications set out in Schedule 1.
1975 c. 21; sections 207 and 415 were substituted by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 62), section 45.
Section 205 was substituted by the said Act of 1980, section 43.