{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1967/section-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1967/section-65.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/80",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1967",
  "path": "section/65",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Abolition of corporal punishment in prison.",
  "text": "Corporal punishment shall not be inflicted in any prison or other institution to which the Prison Act 1952 applies, and accordingly section 18 of that Act shall cease to have effect.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1952 c. 52."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/80/section/65",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:54:55.633811+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."
}