{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-approved-premises-regulations-2008/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-approved-premises-regulations-2008/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1263",
  "legislation_title": "The Offender Management Act 2007 (Approved Premises) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007-approved-premises-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“admissions policy”, in relation to approved premises, means a policy which specifies the categories of person considered suitable to reside at the premises;\n“approved premises” means premises approved under section 13 of the Offender Management Act 2007;\n“community sentence” has the meaning given to it by section 147 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;\n“house rules” means rules for approved premises prepared in accordance with regulation 7(1)(c);\n“local probation board” means a board constituted under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act 2000 that provides approved premises;\n“other body” means a body, other than a local probation board and a probation trust, which provides approved premises;\n“probation trust” means a trust established in accordance with section 5 of the Offender Management Act 2007 that provides approved premises;\n“relevant local board” means, where applicable, the local probation board in whose area the approved premises are situated;\n“relevant probation trust” means, where applicable, a probation trust operating in the area in which the approved premises are situated; and\n“resident”, in relation to approved premises, means a person who lives in the approved premises otherwise than in the course of their employment, and “reside” shall be construed accordingly.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 1.6.2008, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c.44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2000 c. 43. Section 4 has been repealed in relation to the areas of Humberside, Leicestershire, Merseyside, West Mercia, Dyfed Powys and South Wales, by section 39 to, and Part 1 of Schedule 5 to, the Offender Management Act 2007 (c.21). For the remaining purposes, section 4 is to be repealed by section 39 of, and Part 1 of Schedule 5 to, the Offender Management Act 2007 on a date to be appointed."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1263/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:44:51.452474+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."
}