The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 1994

Application to young offenders institutions and young offenders

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), these Rules apply to young offenders institutions and–

(a) to persons on whom detention in a young offenders institution has been imposed under section 207(2) or 415(2) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975(1); and

(b) persons sentenced under section 205 of that Act(2) to be detained without limit of time or for life and who are directed or sentenced to be detained in a young offenders institution,

as they apply to prisons and prisoners; and references in these Rules to prison, prisoner, imprisonment or a sentence of imprisonment shall be construed, except where the context otherwise requires, as references to young offenders institutions, young offender, detention or a sentence of detention in a young offenders institution respectively.

(2) The application of these Rules as mentioned in paragraph (1) is subject to the exceptions and modifications set out in Schedule 1.

(1)

1975 c. 21; sections 207 and 415 were substituted by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 62), section 45.

(2)

Section 205 was substituted by the said Act of 1980, section 43.