{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/21",
  "legislation_title": "Offender Management Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Power of search in contracted out prisons and secure training centres",
  "text": "(1) In section 86 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) (powers and duties of prisoner custody officers in contracted out prisons)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(b), after “search” there is inserted “ in accordance with prison rules ”; and\n(b) in subsection (2), for the words from “remove” to the end there is substituted “ submit to an intimate search (within the meaning of section 164(5) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979). ”\n(2) In section 9 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33) (powers and duties of custody officers in contracted out secure training centres)—\n(a) in subsection (1)(b), after “search” there is inserted “ in accordance with secure training centre rules ”; and\n(b) in subsection (2), for the words from “remove” to the end there is substituted “ submit to an intimate search (within the meaning of section 164(5) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979). ”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 1.11.2007 by S.I. 2007/3001, art. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/21/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:05:40.966141+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."
  }
}