{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1967/section-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1967/section-66.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1967/80",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1967",
  "path": "section/66",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Section 15 of the said Act of 1952 (provision of separate buildings for male and female prisoners confined in the same prison) shall cease to have effect.\n(3) For sections 30 to 32 of the said Act of 1952 (discharged prisoners aid societies and allowances and expenses for discharged prisoners) there shall be substituted the following section:—\n“ Payments for discharged prisoners.\n30 The Secretary of State may make such payments to or in respect of persons released or about to be released from prison as he may with the consent of the Treasury determine”\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) In section 47(4) of that Act (duty to include in prison rules provisions for the special treatment of certain classes of prisoners), paragraphs (b) and (c) (persons convicted of sedition, etc., and appellants) shall cease to have effect, and at the end of paragraph (d) (miscellaneous prisoners) there shall be added the words “or a person committed to custody on his conviction”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 66(1) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), Sch. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 66(4) omitted (20.3.2015) by virtue of Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2), s. 95(1), Sch. 10 para. 29; S.I. 2015/778, art. 2(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The text of s. 66(2)(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "The text of s. 66(5) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/10",
      "affecting_title": "Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/80/section/66",
    "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."
}