{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Detention Centre Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Regime and paid activity",
  "text": "(1) All detained persons shall be provided with an opportunity to participate in activities to meet, as far as possible, their recreational and intellectual needs and the relief of boredom.\n(2) Wherever reasonably possible the development of skills and of services to the centre and to the community should be encouraged.\n(3) Detained persons shall be entitled to undertake paid activities to the extent that the opportunity to do so is provided by the manager.\n(4) Detained persons undertaking activities under paragraph (3) shall be paid at rates approved by the Secretary of State, either generally or in relation to particular cases.\n(5) Every detained person able to take part in educational activities provided at a detention centre shall be encouraged to do so.\n(6) Programmes of educational classes shall be provided at every detention centre.\n(7) Arrangements shall be made for each detained person to have the opportunity of taking part in physical education or recreation, which shall consist of both sports and health-related activities.\n(8) A library shall be provided in every detention centre, which will meet a range of cultural, ethnic and linguistic needs and, subject to any direction of the Secretary of State in any particular case, every detained person shall be allowed access to it at reasonable times.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/238/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:06:01.128699+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}