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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2005/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2005/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/869",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Prison Rules 1999. Rule 2 introduces the Schedule, which sets out the following amendments to the 1999 Rules.\nParagraph 1 amends rule 2 to provide that references to an “adjudicator” mean a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or a Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) approved by the Lord Chancellor.\nParagraph 2 amends rule 42 so as to prohibit a copy of any personal record being given to a person not authorised to receive it.\nParagraph 3 inserts a new rule 50B which establishes the procedure which is to apply where an officer requires a prisoner to provide a sample under section 16B of the Prison Act 1952.\nParagraph 4 amends rule 51 to change the way in which certain offences under the Prison Rules apply.\nParagraph 5 inserts a new rule 52A which provides a defence to the disciplinary offences of being intoxicated or having consumed alcohol.\nParagraph 6 inserts a new rule 55B which provides for a reviewer to review a punishment imposed by an adjudicator and sets out the procedure to be followed when a prisoner requests such a review.\nParagraph 7 amends rule 61 with the effect that the Secretary of State may not under that rule consider adjudications referred to an adjudicator, although a governor may do so on grounds of good behaviour.\nParagraph 8 amends rule 71 with the effect that those visiting prisons in whatever capacity may be photographed, fingerprinted or required to submit to other physical measurement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/869/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."
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