{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/21",
  "legislation_title": "Offender Management Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 8A of the Prison Act 1952",
  "text": "(1) Section 8A of the Prison Act 1952 (powers of search by authorised employees at a directly managed prison) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the side note, for “employees” there is substituted “ persons ”.\n(3) In subsections (1) and (2), for “employee” there is substituted “ person ”.\n(4) In subsection (3)—\n(a) for “authorised employee” there is substituted “ authorised person ”; and\n(b) for “an employee” there is substituted “ a person working at the prison, ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 27 in force at 1.11.2007 by S.I. 2007/3001, art. 2(1)(h)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/21/section/27",
    "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."
  }
}