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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-55.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Detention Centre Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Control of persons and vehicles",
  "text": "(1) Any person or vehicle entering a detention centre may be stopped, examined and searched.\n(2) Any search of a person under paragraph (1) shall be carried out in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.\n(3) The manager may direct the removal from a detention centre of any person who does not leave on being required to do so.",
  "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/55",
    "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."
  }
}