{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Detention Centre Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Rules, where the context so admits, the expression—\n“compact” has the meaning set out at rule 4(1);\n“controlled drug” means any drug which is a controlled drug for the purposes of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ;\n“legal adviser” means, in relation to a detained person, his counsel, representative or solicitor, and includes a clerk acting on behalf of his solicitor;\n“manager” means, in relation to any detention centre, the person appointed under section 148(1) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999;\n“officer” means an officer of a detention centre (whether a Crown servant or an employee of the contractor or otherwise) and, for the purposes of rule 8(2), includes a detainee custody officer who is authorised to perform escort functions in accordance with section 154 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 or a prison officer or prisoner custody officer performing those functions under that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1971 c. 38."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/238/article/2",
    "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."
  }
}