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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952/section-55",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/52",
  "legislation_title": "Prison Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952",
  "path": "section/55",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Short title, commencement and extent.",
  "text": "(1) This Act may be cited as the Prison Act 1952.\n(2) This Act shall come into operation on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and fifty–two.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Except as provided in . . . the Criminal Justice Act 1961, this Act shall not extend to Scotland.\n(5) This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.\n(6) But (despite subsections (4) and (5)) the following shall extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—\n(a) section 5A(5A) and (5B), and\n(b) section 5A(2) to (5) in so far as they apply by virtue of section 5A(5A).",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 55(3) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 55(4) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I Group 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1961 (c. 39), s. 41(3), Sch. 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 55(6) inserted (31.8.2006) by Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006 (c. 13), ss. 46(2)(b), 62(1)(2); S.I. 2006/2226, art. 3, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1961 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ukpga/1999/33",
      "affecting_title": "Immigration and Asylum Act 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/52/section/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:17:21.749923+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."
  }
}