Prison (Scotland) Rules, 1952
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1952/565 |
| Year | 1952 |
1952 No. 565 (S. 18)
The Prison (Scotland) Rules, 195212thMarch 1952
1stApril 1952
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I
Rules
PRELIMINARY … … … … … … … … … … … 1 to 3
PART II
GENERAL RULES FOR THE CUSTODY AND TREATMENT OF
PRISONERS… … … … … … … … … … … 4 to 107
CLASSIFICATION AND TRAINING … … … … … … … 5 to 8
ACCOMMODATION … … … … … … … … … … 9 to 13
ADMISSION, TRANSFER AND DISCHARGE … … … … … 14 to 30
(i) Admission … … … … … … … … 14 to 21
(ii) Information to prisoners … … … … … 22
(iii) Transfer and Discharge … … … … … 23 to 28
(iv) Deaths of prisoners … … … … … 29 to 30
DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL … … … … … … … … 31 to 54
(i) General … … … … … … … … … 31 to 36
(ii) Remission … … … … … … … … 37
(iii) Offences against Discipline … … … … 38 to 47
(iv) Restraints … … … … … … … … 48 to 49
(v) Requests and Complaints by Prisoners … … 50
(vi) Prohibited Articles … … … … … … 51 to 52
(vii) Control of Admission … … … … … 53 to 54
WORK … … … … … … … … … … … … 55 to 56
RELIGION, EDUCATION AND WELFARE … … … … … … 57 to 80
(i) Religion … … … … … … … … … 57 to 66
(ii) Education and Libraries … … … … … 67 to 70
(iii) Social Relations and After-Care … … … 71 to 73
(iv) Letters and Visits … … … … … … 74 to 80
PHYSICAL WELFARE … … … … … … … … … 81 to 107
(i) Medical Services … … … … … … … 81 to 95
(ii) Hygiene … … … … … … … … … 96 to 99
(iii) Exercise … … … … … … … … … 100
(iv) Food … … … … … … … … … … 101 to 106
(v) Clothing … … … … … … … … … 107
PART III
SPECIAL RULES FOR PARTICULAR CLASSES OF PRISONERS
OTHER THAN THOSE SENTENCED TO CORRECTIVE TRAINING
OR PREVENTIVE DETENTION … … … … … … 108 to 155
UNTRIED PRISONERS … … … … … … … … … 108 to 128
(i) General … … … … … … … … … 108 to 112
(ii) Food and Clothing … … … … … … 113 to 115
(iii) Health and Cleanliness … … … … … 116 to 117
(iv) Books etc. … … … … … … … … 118 to 119
(v) Work … … … … … … … … … … 120
(vi) Visits and Communications … … … … 121 to 124
(vii) Discipline … … … … … … … … 125 to 126
(viii) Miscellaneous … … … … … … … 127 to 128
APPELLANTS … … … … … … … … … … … 129 to 132
CONVICTED PRISONERS AWAITING SENTENCE OR REMANDED FOR
ENQUIRY … … … … … … … … … … … 133
CIVIL PRISONERS; PRISONERS COMMITTED UNDER SECTION 4
OR SECTION 6 OF THE CIVIL IMPRISONMENT (SCOTLAND)
ACT, 1882; PRISONERS IMPRISONED FOR CONTEMPT OF
COURT; AND PRISONERS CONVICTED OF SEDITION OR
SEDITIOUS LIBEL … … … … … … … … … 134 to 149
(i) General … … … … … … … … … 134 to 137
(ii) Food and Clothing … … … … … … 138 to 140
(iii) Health and Cleanliness … … … … … 141 to 142
(iv) Books etc. … … … … … … … … 143
(v) Work and Remission of Sentence … … … 144
(vi) Visits and Communications … … … … 145
(vii) Discipline … … … … … … … … 146 to 147
(viii) Miscellaneous … … … … … … … 148 to 149
YOUNG PRISONERS … … … … … … … … … … 150 to 152
PRISONERS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH … … … … … 153 to 155
PART IV
SPECIAL RULES FOR PRISONERS SENTENCED TO CORRECTIVE
TRAINING … … … … … … … … … … … 156 to 163
(i) Treatment … … … … … … … … 156 to 159
(ii) Release on Licence … … … … … … 160 to 162
(iii) Orders of Recall … … … … … … … 163
PART V
SPECIAL RULES FOR PRISONERS SENTENCED TO PREVENTIVE
DETENTION … … … … … … … … … … 164 to 175
(i) Treatment … … … … … … … … 164 to 170
(ii) Release on Licence … … … … … … 171 to 174
(iii) Orders of Recall … … … … … … 175
PART VI
STAFF … … … … … … … … … … … … 176 to 186
PART VII
VISITING COMMITTEES … … … … … … … … … 187 to 205
PART VIII
RULES, REGULATIONS AND ORDERS AS TO THE REGISTERING
MEASURING AND PHOTOGRAPHING OF PRISONERS … … … 206 to 212
PART IX
INMATES OF CRIMINAL LUNATIC DEPARTMENT OF PERTH PRISON 213 to 225
SCHEDULE
CONSTITUTION OF VISITING COMMITTEES.
In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section fifty-three of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act, 1949(a), and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following Rules:—
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1.—(1) In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say—
"Appellant" means an appellant within the meaning of the Criminal Appeal (Scotland) Act, 1926(b) or the Courts-Martial (Appeals) Act, 1951(c) whose appeal has not yet been determined.
"Chaplain" means the person, being a minister or licentiate of the Church of Scotland, appointed by the Secretary of State to minister to the religious welfare of prisoners.
"Civil prisoner" includes persons imprisoned for non-payment of debts or taxes due to the Crown, not being fines or penalties inflicted on conviction of offences; persons imprisoned under section 5 of the Civil Imprisonment (Scotland) Act, 1882(d), for non-payment of rates and assessments; persons imprisoned on meditatione fugœ warrants granted at the instance of creditors for performance of civil obligations; persons imprisoned by virtue of Section 1 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland), Act, 1940(e), on account of their failure to comply with a decree ad factum prœstandum; and persons imprisoned for breach of interdict.
"Governor" means the officer appointed by the Secretary of State to govern a prison subject to the control and direction of the Secretary of State.
"Legal adviser" means an advocate, or a solicitor within the meaning of the Solicitors (Scotland) Act, 1933(f), or the authorised clerk of an advocate or solicitor.
"Medical Officer" means the officer, being a registered medical practitioner, appointed by the Secretary of State to perform the medical services of a prison.
(a) 12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 94.
(b) 16 & 17 Geo. 5. c. 15.
(c) 14 & 15 Geo. 6. c. 46.
(d) 45 & 46 Vict. c. 42.
(e) 3 & 4 Geo. 6. c. 42.
(f) 23 & 24 Geo. 5. c. 21.
"Medical Superintendent" means the officer, being a registered medical practitioner, appointed by the Secretary of State to take charge of the care and treatment of the inmates of the Criminal Lunatic Department of Perth Prison, and of the management of that Department, subject to the control and direction of the Secretary of State.
"Officer" means a person appointed by the Secretary of State to assist in the control of a prison.
"Prisoner" means any person lawfully detained in a prison or in the custody of an officer.
"Prohibited Article" means such article as may from time to time be declared by the Secretary of State to be a prohibited article for the purpose of these Rules.
"Untried prisoner" means a prisoner committed to prison for examination or trial on a criminal charge, or an alien not under sentence who is detained in prison under the Aliens Order, 1920(a), or a person committed to prison to await extradition under the Extradition Acts, or return to one of His Majesty's Dominions under the Fugitive Offenders Acts, or any other person who may from time to time be granted the privileges of an untried prisoner.
"Visiting Clergyman" means a person, being a minister of any religious denomination other than the Church of Scotland, appointed by the Secretary of State to minister to the religious welfare of prisoners of that denomination.
"Visiting Committee" means the Committee appointed under section 54 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act, 1949, to visit a particular prison.
"Young prisoner" means a prisoner under 21 years of age.
(2) Any direction or authorisation implied in any of these Rules shall be given by the Secretary of State unless the Rule otherwise provides.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889(b), shall apply to the interpretation of these Rules as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
2. These Rules may be cited as The Prison (Scotland) Rules, 1952, and shall come into operation on the 1st April, 1952.
3. The Prison (Scotland) Rules, 1947, dated 2nd April, 1947(c), are hereby revoked.
PART II
GENERAL RULES FOR THE CUSTODY AND TREATMENT OF PRISONERS
4. The Rules in this Part apply to all classes of prisoners except in so far as they may be inconsistent with the Rules relating to particular classes of prisoners.
CLASSIFICATION AND TRAINING
5. The purposes of training and treatment of convicted prisoners shall be to establish in them the will to lead a good and useful life on discharge, and to fit them to do so.
6.—(1) The Secretary of State may set aside particular prisons or parts of prisons for particular classes of prisoners or particular purposes, including—
(i) the special observation of either unconvicted or convicted prisoners for the purpose of classification, making reports to courts, or otherwise;
(ii) the training of such classes of prisoners sentenced to imprisonment, corrective training or preventive detention as the Secretary of State may from time to time determine.
(a) S.R. & O. 1920/448; Rev. II, p. 1; 1920 I, p. 138.
(b) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
(c) S.R. & O. 1947/1062; Rev. XVIII, p. 513; 1947 I, p. 1850.
(2) The Secretary of State may establish or set aside prisons for the treatment in open conditions of selected prisoners or classes of prisoners who have been sentenced to imprisonment or corrective training.
7.—(1) Convicted prisoners shall be classified having regard to their age, character, and previous history, in accordance with such instructions as the Secretary of State may give from time to time.
(2) Any instructions under paragraph (1) of this Rule shall provide for the separation from other prisoners, as far as practicable, of young prisoners and other prisoners who have not previously been convicted of serious crimes, or are not habitually criminal or of corrupt habits.
8.—(1) There shall be established at every prison such system of privileges as the Secretary of State approves in the interests of good conduct and training.
(2) Every such system shall include arrangements under which sums paid to prisoners under these Rules may be spent subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine.
ACCOMMODATION
9. The prisons specified in the first column of the subjoined table shall be legal places of detention...
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