{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-46.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Close supervision centres",
  "text": "(1) Where it appears desirable, for the maintenance of good order or discipline or to ensure the safety of officers, prisoners or any other person, that a prisoner should not associate with other prisoners, either generally or for particular purposes, the Secretary of State may direct the prisoner’s removal from association accordingly and his placement in a close supervision centre of a prison.\n(2) A direction given under paragraph (1) shall be for a period not exceeding one month , or, during a coronavirus period, three months, but may be renewed from time to time for a like period , and shall continue to apply notwithstanding any transfer of a prisoner from one prison to another.\n(3) The Secretary of State may direct that such a prisoner as aforesaid shall resume association with other prisoners, either within a close supervision centre or elsewhere.\n(4) In exercising any discretion under this rule, the Secretary of State shall take account of any relevant medical considerations which are known to him.\n(5) A close supervision centre is any cell or other part of a prison designated by the Secretary of State for holding prisoners who are subject to a direction given under paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 46(2) inserted (temp.) (15.5.2020) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/508), rule 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 8 (with rule 1(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 46(2) inserted (1.8.2000) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1794), rule 1, Sch. para. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 46(5) inserted (1.8.2000) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2000 (S.I. 2000/1794), rule 1, Sch. para. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/46",
    "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."
}