{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/her-majestys-chief-inspector-of-prisons-specified-organisations-order-2007/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/1173",
  "legislation_title": "Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (Specified Organisations) Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/her-majestys-chief-inspector-of-prisons-specified-organisations-order-2007",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Specified organisations",
  "text": "The following persons are specified as organisations for the purposes of paragraph 3(4) of Schedule A1 to the 1952 Act (inspections by other inspectors of organisations within Chief Inspector’s remit)—\n(a) a Governor or other person working at a prison as defined in section 53(1) of the 1952 Act (interpretation);\n(b) a director, controller or other person working at a contracted out prison as defined in section 84(4) of the 1991 Act (contracted out prisons);\n(c) a Governor or other person working at a young offender institution as defined in section 43(1)(aa) of the 1952 Act (remand centres and young offender institutions);\n(d) a Governor or other person working at a remand centre as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the 1952 Act;\n(e) the manager or other person working at a removal centre as defined in section 147 of the 1999 Act (interpretation);\n(f) any person working at a short-term holding facility as defined in section 147 of the 1999 Act;\n(g) any person exercising escort functions under arrangements made under section 80 of the 1991 Act (arrangements for the provision of prisoner escorts); and\n(h) any person exercising escort functions under arrangements made under section 156 of the 1999 Act (arrangements for the provision of escorts and custody).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 84(4) was substituted by section 96 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33). By virtue of section 92(1) of the 1991 Act “contracted out prison” includes a contracted out young offender institution."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition given to a “young offender institution” in section 43(1)(aa) was inserted by section 170 of, and paragraph 11 of Schedule 15 to,the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 43(1)(a) is repealed by sections 59 and 75 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 (c. 43). The repeal is not yet in force and will be in force on a date to be appointed by section 80(1) of the 2000 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "The definition given to “removal centre” in section 147 was inserted by section 66(1)(b) of the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Section 80 was amended by section 93 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "Section 156 was amended by section 26(7) of, and paragraph 15 of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Asylum and Immigration (Treatment of Claimants, etc) Act 2004 (c. 19)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/1173/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:55:19.582868+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."
}