{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/schedule-12/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999/schedule-12/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1999/33",
  "legislation_title": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/immigration-and-asylum-act-1999",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person who, contrary to removal centre rules, brings or attempts to bring any alcohol into a removal centre, or to a detained person, is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who places alcohol anywhere outside a removal centre, intending that it should come into the possession of a detained person there, is guilty of an offence.\n(3) A detainee custody officer or any other person on the staff of a removal centre who, contrary to removal centre rules, allows alcohol to be sold or used in the centre is guilty of an offence.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this paragraph is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to both.\n(5) “Alcohol” means any spirituous or fermented liquor.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 12 substituted (10.2.2003) by Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002 (c. 41), ss. 66(2)(3)(l), 162(1) (with s. 159); S.I. 2003/1, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1999/33/schedule/12/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:34.566084+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."
}