{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-2000/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-2000/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2641",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-no-2-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of Rules",
  "text": "For paragraph (1) of rule 73 there shall be substituted the following paragraph:\n“(1) Without prejudice to any other powers to prohibit or restrict entry to prisons, or his powers under rules 34 and 35, the Secretary of State may prohibit visits by a person to a prison or to a prisoner in a prison for such periods of time as he considers necessary if the Secretary of State considers that such a prohibition is—\n(a) necessary on grounds specified in rule 35A(4); and\n(b) is proportionate to what is sought to be achieved by the prohibition.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2641/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:15:18.267332+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."
  }
}