PART 12REQUESTS AND COMPLAINTS
Power of Scottish Ministers to quash findings of guilt and to remit or mitigate punishments131.
(1)
The Scottish Ministers may in relation to a prisoner who has been found guilty of any breach of discipline–
(a)
quash any finding of guilt;
(b)
remit or mitigate any punishment (other than a punishment imposed under sub paragraph (b), (d), (e) or (g) of rule 119(1) where the period for which the punishment was imposed has expired); or
(c)
substitute another punishment which is, in the Scottish Ministers' opinion, less severe.
(2)
If the Scottish Ministers quash any finding of guilt, the Governor shall destroy any record in the prisoner’s file which relates to the alleged breach of discipline except where the record, or a part of it, relates to any other finding of breach of discipline which continues to form part of the prisoner’s record.