The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1996

Amendment of rule 95 of the principal Rules

23.  Rule 95 of the principal Rules (reports of breaches of discipline and removal from association) is amended—

(a)by substituting for paragraph (2) the following paragraph:—

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), where any officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a prisoner has committed a breach of discipline he may, if he considers it appropriate to do so, remove the prisoner from association with other prisoners in general pending the making of a report in terms of paragraph (1) and the adjudication of the charge of breach of discipline.; and

(b)by substituting for the word “order” in paragraph (3) the word “removal”.