{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-52.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Defences to rule 51(9)",
  "text": "It shall be a defence for a prisoner charged with an offence under rule 51(9) to show that the controlled drug, pharmacy medicine, prescription only medicine, psychoactive substance or specified substance:\n(a) ... ... had been, prior to its administration, lawfully in his possession for his use or was administered to him in the course of a lawful supply of the drug , medicine or substance to him by another person;\n(b) ... ... was administered by or to him in circumstances in which he did not know and had no reason to suspect that such a drug , medicine or substance was being administered; or\n(c) ... ... was administered by or to him under duress or to him without his consent in circumstances where it was not reasonable for him to have resisted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 52 inserted (8.12.2021 immediately after 2021 c. 18 comes into force) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1279), rules 1(3), 2(6)(a); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(a) omitted (8.12.2021 immediately after 2021 c. 18 comes into force) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1279), rules 1(3), 2(6)(b)(i); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(a) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of Prisons (Substance Testing) Act 2021 (c. 18), ss. 2(3)(d), 3(2); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(a) inserted (8.12.2021 immediately after 2021 c. 18 comes into force) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1279), rules 1(3), 2(6)(b)(ii); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(b) omitted (8.12.2021 immediately after 2021 c. 18 comes into force) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1279), rules 1(3), 2(6)(c)(i); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(b) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of Prisons (Substance Testing) Act 2021 (c. 18), ss. 2(3)(d), 3(2); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(b) inserted (8.12.2021 immediately after 2021 c. 18 comes into force) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1279), rules 1(3), 2(6)(c)(ii); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(c) omitted (8.12.2021 immediately after 2021 c. 18 comes into force) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2021 (S.I. 2021/1279), rules 1(3), 2(6)(d); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in rule 52(c) omitted (8.12.2021) by virtue of Prisons (Substance Testing) Act 2021 (c. 18), ss. 2(3)(d), 3(2); S.I. 2021/1280, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/52",
    "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."
}