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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2017/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2017/576",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-amendment-rules-2017",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Prisons, England And Wales\nMade 19th April 2017\nLaid before Parliament 21st April 2017\nComing into force 12th May 2017\nThe Secretary of State makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by section 47(1) of the Prison Act 1952.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 52. Section 47(1) was amended by section 6(2) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (c. 33) and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 9 to the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 (c. 2)."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/576/introduction",
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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."
}