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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-1988/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/747",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Where any constable or member of the armed forces of the Crown is employed by reason of any emergency to assist the governor of a prison by performing duties ordinarily performed by an officer of the prison, any reference in Part I of the Prison Rules 1964 to such an officer (other than a governor) shall be construed as including a reference to a constable or a member of the armed forces of the Crown so employed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1964/388. The 1964 Rules were amended by S.I. 1968/440, 1971/2019, 1972/1860, 1974/713, 1976/503, 1981/70, 1982/260, 1983/568, 1987/1256 and 1988/89."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/747/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:07:31.943087+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."
}