PART 8 SCOMMUNICATIONS

PRISONERS' CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS S

Prisoners' correspondence S

54.—(1) Subject to rules [F1 55 to 57 and 60], a prisoner may send and receive letters and packages by means of the postal service, or otherwise.

(2) Nothing in these Rules gives a prisoner any right to send or receive electronic communications.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in rule 54(1) substituted (24.3.2016) by The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/131), rules 1, 2(8)