{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-security-act-2010/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-security-act-2010/section-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2010/17",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Security Act 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-security-act-2010",
  "path": "section/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Offences relating to electronic communications devices in prison",
  "text": "In the Prison Act 1952, in section 40D (other offences relating to prison security)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(b), for “or any sound” there is substituted “ , sound or information ”;\n(b) in subsection (3), paragraph (b) and the preceding “or” are repealed;\n(c) after subsection (3) there is inserted—\n“(3A) A person who, without authorisation, is in possession of any of the items specified in subsection (3B) inside a prison is guilty of an offence.\n(3B) The items referred to in subsection (3A) are—\n(a) a device capable of transmitting or receiving images, sounds or information by electronic communications (including a mobile telephone);\n(b) a component part of such a device;\n(c) an article designed or adapted for use with such a device (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds or information may be recorded).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 45 in force at 26.3.2012 by S.I. 2012/584, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/17/section/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:10:03.407100+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}