The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2006

Entitlement to accumulated visits

65.—(1) This rule applies to a prisoner who–

(a) is a life prisoner or is serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of more than 12 months and has served at least 6 months of that sentence;

(b) is moved from a prison to any other prison, whether or not for the purpose of enabling the prisoner to use any accumulated unused allowance of visits; and

(c) has accumulated an unused allowance of visits in terms of rule 63 at the prison from which he or she is moved which is not less than the amount of visits which the prisoner would have been entitled to receive at that prison in terms of that rule in a period of 6 months.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a prisoner to whom this rule applies shall be entitled to carry forward the accumulated period of unused allowance and to use that accumulated allowance at the prison to which the prisoner is moved in addition to the allowance in terms of rule 63 at that prison.

(3) The exercise by a prisoner of his or her entitlement under paragraph (2) shall be subject to any direction by the Scottish Ministers in relation to–

(a) the circumstances in which a prisoner who is moved from a prison to any other prison may not be allowed to carry forward, or may be restricted from carrying forward, any accumulated allowance of visits; and

(b) the conditions which may be imposed (including conditions as to the period in which an accumulated allowance must be used) by the Governor where a prisoner is entitled to carry forward such an allowance.

(4) In the application of this rule to a young offender any reference to a prison shall be construed as a reference to a young offenders institution or a prison.