C1C2C3C4C5C6Part I Detention, Transfer and Release of Offenders

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Pt. 1 modified (S.) (20.10.1997) by 1997 c. 48, s. 16(2)(3) (with s. 33); S.I. 1997/2323, art. 3, Sch. 1

C6

Pt. I modified by 2007 asp 17, Sch. 6 (as substituted (S.) (28.3.2011) by Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 13), ss. 19, 206(1); S.S.I. 2011/178, art. 2, sch.); amendment to earlier affecting provision 2007 asp 17, Sch. 6 (11.10.2019) by Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019 (asp 14), ss. 60(5), 63(2); S.S.I. 2019/309, reg. 2

Miscellaneous

24 Additional days for disciplinary offences.

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)—

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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.