{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1953/18",
  "legislation_title": "Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-act-northern-ireland-1953",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Lock-ups.",
  "text": "Where it appears to the Department to be necessary, the Department may provide and maintain suitable accommodation for the temporary detention of persons awaiting trial or sentence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S of S is resp.auth. for Belfast and Londonderry, 1954 c.9 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 3 substituted (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 6(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(3) (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1953/18/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:33:41.124962+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."
}