{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-1990/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-1990/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1762",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Prison Rules 1964 shall be amended as follows:\n(a) in rule 7(1) (information to inmates), the words “and of petitioning the Secretary of State” shall be omitted;\n(b) for rule 8 there shall be substituted–\n“Requests and Complaints\n8 (1) A request or complaint to the governor or Board of Visitors relating to a prisoner’s imprisonment shall be made orally or in writing by that prisoner.\n(2) On every day the governor shall hear any requests and complaints that are made to him under paragraph (1) above.\n(3) A written request or complaint under paragraph (1) above may be made in confidence.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1964/388; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1971/2019 and 1983/568."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1762/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:07:47.978616+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."
}