{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-1993/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-1993/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3075",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Prison Rules 1964 as amended in three respects.\nFirstly, the Rules substitute a new rule for rule 37A dealing with legal correspondence.The rule now applies to all correspondence between a prisoner and his legal adviser or a court, whether or not legal proceedings have been commenced and sets out the circumstances in which such correspondence may be opened, read or stopped.\nSecondly, the Rules increase the maximum period for which a governor may impose a punishment of cellular confinement from 3 days to 14 days.\nThirdly, the Rules limit the punishments normally available in relation to inmates aged under 21 when the offences were committed to the punishments available in relation to young offenders pursuant to the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 (S.I.1988/1422) as amended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3075/note",
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  "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."
}