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24 Additional days for disciplinary offences.S

The following subsection shall be added at the end of section 39 of the 1989 Act (rules for the management of prisons and other institutions)—

(7)Rules made under this section may provide for the award of additional days, not exceeding in aggregate one-sixth of the prisoner’s sentence—

(a)to a short-term or long-term prisoner within the meaning of Part I of the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993; or

(b)conditionally on his eventually becoming such a prisoner, to a person remanded in custody,

where he is guilty, under such rules, of a breach of discipline..

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