{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-52A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-52A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/52A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52A",
  "heading": "Defences to rule 51(10) and rule 51(11)",
  "text": "It shall be a defence for a prisoner charged with an offence under rule 51(10) or (11) to show that—\n(a) the alcohol was consumed by him in circumstances in which he did not know and had no reason to suspect that he was consuming alcohol;\n(b) the alcohol was consumed by him without his consent in circumstances where it was not reasonable for him to have resisted; or\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 52A inserted (18.4.2005) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/869), rule 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 52A(c) omitted (3.1.2006) by virtue of The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3437), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 12"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/52A",
    "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."
}