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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2005/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/869",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PRISONS\nMade 21st March 2005\nLaid before Parliament 23rd March 2005\nComing into force 18th April 2005\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 47 of the Prison Act 1952 hereby makes the following Rules:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 52. Section 47 was affected by an amendment to section 52(2) of that Act by section 66(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80) and was extended by section 85(2) and (4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53) and by section 16B of the Prison Act 1952 (as inserted by section 1 of the Prisons (Alcohol Testing) Act 1997) (c. 38))."
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/869/introduction",
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    "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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