{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-and-young-offenders-centre-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2009/article-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-and-young-offenders-centre-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2009/article-55.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2009/429",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison and Young Offenders Centre (Amendment) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-and-young-offenders-centre-amendment-rules-northern-ireland-2009",
  "path": "article/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm",
  "text": "After rule 88 (special medical reports) insert the following—\n“Prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm\n88A (1) A governor may require that a prisoner whom he considers to be at risk of suicide or self-harm be accommodated in a cell or room designated for the management of that prisoner’s risk of suicide or self-harm.\n(2) Where the cell or room designated under paragraph (1) is an observation cell the prisoner shall be accommodated in that cell for such period as is consistent with the management of his risk of suicide or self-harm.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2009/429/article/55",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:29:15.290501+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."
}