{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/53",
  "legislation_title": "Criminal Justice Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/criminal-justice-act-1991",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Protection of prisoner custody officers.",
  "text": "(1) Any person who assaults a prisoner custody officer\n(a) acting in pursuance of prisoner escort arrangements;\n(b) performing custodial duties at a contracted out prison; or\n(c) performing contracted out functions at a directly managed prison,\nshall be liable on summary conviction to fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.\n(2) Section 17(2) of the Firearms Act 1968 (additional penalty for possession of firearms when committing certain offences) shall apply to offences under subsection (1) above.\n(3) Any person who resists or wilfully obstructs a prisoner custody officer\n(a) acting in pursuance of prisoner escort arrangements;\n(b) performing custodial duties at a contracted out prison; or\n(c) performing contracted out functions at a directly managed prison,\nshall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) For the purposes of this section, a prisoner custody officer shall not be regarded as acting in pursuance of prisoner escort arrangements at any time when he is not readily identifiable as such an officer (whether by means of a uniform or badge which he is wearing or otherwise).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1)(3) substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 33, s. 101(5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1968 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 90 wholly in force at 31.10.1991 see s. 102(2)(3) and S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(4) and Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/53/section/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:55.708645+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."
}