{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Regular visits by ministers of religion",
  "text": "(1) The chaplain shall visit the prisoners belonging to the Church of England.\n(2) A prison minister shall visit the prisoners of his denomination as regularly as he reasonably can.\n(3) Where a prisoner belongs to a denomination for which no prison minister has been appointed, the governor shall do what he reasonably can, if so requested by the prisoner, to arrange for him to be visited regularly by a minister of that denomination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:09.622939+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."
}