{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-rules-2019/article-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-rules-2019/article-31.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1038",
  "legislation_title": "The Parole Board Rules 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parole-board-rules-2019",
  "path": "article/31",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "References to terminate IPP licences",
  "text": "(1) Where the Secretary of State makes a reference for an offender’s licence to be terminated under section 31A of the 1997 Act, the Secretary of State must serve any reports or evidence at the same time as making the reference to the Board.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where the Board receives a reference, a panel appointed under rule 5(5) must consider the application in accordance with section 31A(4) of the 1997 Act.\n(5) In considering the reference, the panel may—\n(a) make a decision on the papers, or\n(b) direct that the reference should be decided by a panel at a hearing.\n(6) Where a panel considers the reference on the papers or at a hearing, it must decide to—\n(a) terminate the offender’s licence;\n(b) dismiss the reference, but amend the offender’s licence in accordance with section 31(3) of the 1997 Act, or\n(c) dismiss the reference.\n(6A) Where the reference has been made for an offender who is in prison having been recalled under section 32 of the 1997 Act, the panel must consider the reference in accordance with section 31(4F) of that Act.\n(7) The decision under paragraph (6) or (6A) must—\n(a) include the reasons for that decision; and\n(b) be provided to the offender and the Secretary of State within 14 days.\n(7A) Any decision made by the panel under paragraphs (6) ... or (6A) is provisional, and becomes final if no application for reconsideration under rule 28 is received within the period specified by that rule.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 31(1) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 31(2) omitted (21.7.2022) by virtue of The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 31(3) omitted (21.7.2022) by virtue of The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 31(4) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in rule 31(5) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in rule 31(5)(b) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in rule 31(6) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(g)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 31(6)(b) inserted (1.11.2024) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1011), rules 1(3), 2(16)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in rule 31(6)(b) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(g)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Rule 31(6A) inserted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Word in rule 31(6A) substituted (1.11.2024) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1011), rules 1(3), 2(16)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Rule 31(7) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Rule 31(7)(b) substituted (1.11.2024) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1011), rules 1(3), 2(16)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Rule 31(7A) inserted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in rule 31(7A) omitted (1.11.2024) by virtue of The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1011), rules 1(3), 2(16)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Word in rule 31 heading substituted (21.7.2022) by The Parole Board (Amendment) Rules 2022 (S.I. 2022/717), rules 1(2), 2(21)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 31 in force at 22.7.2019, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1038/article/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:39:31.947290+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."
}