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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/21",
  "legislation_title": "Offender Management Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007",
  "path": "section/20",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 87 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991",
  "text": "(1) Section 87 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (modification of Prison Act 1952 in its application to a contracted out prison) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (3) there is substituted—\n“(3) Section 8 (powers of prison officers) shall not apply (but this does not affect the powers of a prison officer who is temporarily attached to the prison).”\n(3) In subsection (4), after “sections” there is inserted “ 8A(3), (4) and (5) ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 20 in force at 1.11.2007 by S.I. 2007/3001, art. 2(1)(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/21/section/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:36.661073+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."
  }
}