Scottish Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 446
Prisons
The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2021
Made
at 10.40 a.m. on 30th November 2021
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
at 2.30 p.m. on 30th November 2021
Coming into force
13th December 2021
The Scottish Ministers make the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 39 of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989(1), and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1989 c. 45; section 39 was amended by the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 9), sections 24 and 25, schedule 5, paragraph 6(6) and schedule 7, paragraph 1; the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33), section 116(4); the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 40), schedule 4, paragraph 75(4); the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (c. 37), schedule 8, paragraph 71 and schedule 10, paragraph 1; and the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), section 55(2). The functions of the Secretary of State, insofar as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), section 53.