{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/52",
  "legislation_title": "Prison Act 1952",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-1952",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Prison officers.",
  "text": "(1) Every prison shall have a governor, a chaplain ... and such other officers as may be necessary.\n(2) Every prison in which women are received shall have a sufficient number of women officers; . . .\n(3) A prison which in the opinion of the Secretary of State is large enough to require it may have a deputy governor or an assistant chaplain or both.\n(4) The chaplain and any assistant chaplain shall be a clergyman of the Church of England ... .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1) repealed (1.11.2007) by Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21), ss. 25(1), 41(1), Sch. 5 Pt. 2; S.I. 2007/3001, art. 2(1)(t)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words repealed by Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65), s. 18(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(4) repealed (1.11.2007) by Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21), s. 41(1), Sch. 5 Pt. 2; S.I. 2007/3001, art. 2(1)(t)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 7(5) repealed by S.I. 1963/597, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7(1) modified (31.10.1991) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 87(2); S.I. 1991/2208, art. 2(4), Sch. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6and1Eliz2/15-16/52/section/7",
    "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."
  }
}