{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-and-young-offender-institution-amendment-rules-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/549",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-and-young-offender-institution-amendment-rules-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Prisons, England And Wales\nYoung Offender Institutions, England And Wales\nMade 27th April 2018\nLaid before Parliament 1st May 2018\nComing into force 22nd May 2018\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40A(6) and 47(1) of the Prison Act 1952, makes the following Rules.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 52. Section 40A(6) was inserted by section 22(1) of the Offender Management Act 2007 (c. 21). 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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/549/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."
}