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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-41",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-41.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/41",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "41",
  "heading": "Search",
  "text": "(1) Every prisoner shall be searched when taken into custody by an officer, on his reception into a prison and subsequently as the governor thinks necessary or as the Secretary of State may direct.\n(2) A prisoner shall be searched in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.\n(3) No prisoner shall be stripped and searched in the sight of another prisoner, or in the sight of a person of the opposite sex.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/41",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:09.622939+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}