{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/52",
  "legislation_title": "Prison Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Display of notice of penalties.",
  "text": "The Prison Commissioners shall cause to be fixed in a conspicuous place outside every prison a notice of the penalties to which persons committing offences under sections 39 to 40D are liable.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 40D, 40E inserted (1.4.2008) by Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21), ss. 23(1), 41(1); S.I. 2008/504, art. 3(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 42 substituted (1.4.2008) by Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21), ss. 23(3), 41(1); S.I. 2008/504, art. 3(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/52/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:21.749923+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."
}