{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attendance-centre-rules-1995/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attendance-centre-rules-1995/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3281",
  "legislation_title": "The Attendance Centre Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/attendance-centre-rules-1995",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules, the expression—\n“centre” means an attendance centre provided by the Secretary of State under section 16(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982;\n“member of the staff” means any person for the time being carrying out any instructional or supervisory duties at a centre;\n“officer in charge” means the member of the staff for the time being in charge of a centre;\n“order” means an order made by a court under section 17 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982, section 15(3)(a) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 or Part II of Schedule 2 to the Criminal Justice Act 1991, requiring an offender to attend at a centre.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 17 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), section 67(1) and Schedule 11, paragraph 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1969 c. 54; section 15 is as substituted by Schedule 7 to the Criminal Justice Act 1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1991 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3281/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:55:18.549073+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
  }
}