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The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 1996

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Amendment of rule 96 of the principal Rules

24.  Rule 96 of the principal Rules (disciplinary charges) is amended by the insertion after paragraph (2) of the following paragraph:—

(3) Where an untried prisoner is reported for a suspected breach of discipline on the day before his trial is due to commence, or on the day of (or any day during) his trial, the officer concerned may delay bringing a charge in accordance with the foregoing provisions until the relevant criminal proceedings are concluded and, where the prisoner is sentenced to imprisonment, the officer may bring the charge no later than 48 hours after the time at which sentence is passed..

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