{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-48.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/48",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "Temporary confinement",
  "text": "(1) The governor may order a refractory or violent prisoner to be confined temporarily in a special cell, but a prisoner shall not be so confined as a punishment, or after he has ceased to be refractory or violent.\n(2) A prisoner shall not be confined in a special cell for longer than 24 hours without a direction in writing given ... by an officer of the Secretary of State .... Such a direction shall state the grounds for the confinement and the time during which it may continue.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 48(2) omitted (3.1.2006) by virtue of The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3437), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/48",
    "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."
  }
}