The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Amendment Rules 2012
These Rules amend the Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2011 (“the Prison Rules”). Rule 2(4) of these Rules replaces rule 12 of the Prison Rules to clarify what information can be taken from a prisoner and for what purposes that information can be taken. The new rule 12 also makes provision for the destruction of biometric data taken from prisoners.