{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001/article-62.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Detention Centre Rules 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/detention-centre-rules-2001",
  "path": "article/62",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Particular duties",
  "text": "(1) A member of the visiting committee shall visit any detained person who is subject for the time being to:—\n(a) removal from association under rule 40;\n(b) temporary confinement under rule 42; or\n(c) special control or restraint under rule 43 within 24 hours of his being made so subject, and thereafter as the Secretary of State may direct.\n(2) The visiting committee for a detention centre and any member of the committee shall hear any complaint or request which a detained person wishes to make to them or him.\n(3) The committee shall arrange for the food of the detained persons to be inspected by a member of the committee at frequent intervals.\n(4) The committee shall inquire into any report made to them, whether or not by a member of the committee, that a detained person’s health, mental or physical, is likely to be injuriously affected by any conditions of his detention.",
  "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/62",
    "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."
  }
}