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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracted-out-prisons-specification-of-restricted-activities-order-2009/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/576",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracted-Out Prisons (Specification of Restricted Activities) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/contracted-out-prisons-specification-of-restricted-activities-order-2009",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order describes certain activities which a director of a contracted-out prison may authorise a worker at a contracted-out prison to carry out. A worker at a contracted out prison is a person who works at the prison who is not a prisoner custody officer, within the meaning of section 89(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991, authorised to perform custodial duties.\nThe Schedule to this Order sets out description of activities for which authorisations may be given. These activities include:\n(a) general gate and visitor control duties, including routine control and searching of visitors and staff, and property, subject to the restrictions set out in the Order. This includes control and escort of contractors and vehicles;\n(b) Communications Room and Control Room duties; in particular to monitoring CCTV equipment, monitoring computerised security systems and operating internal communications system;\n(c) carrying out patrols of the prison perimeter and grounds; including, where appropriate, carrying out night patrol duties;\n(d) searching buildings and other areas of the prison and searching prisoner property, but not searching prisoner accommodation or prisoners property contained in a cell;\n(e) supervising certain prisoner work parties;\n(f) carrying out Fire Officer duties, where the worker is trained and suitably experienced;\n(g) routine administrative work where appropriate to other duties and other routine operational activities.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/576/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:15:44.331553+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "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."
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