{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-55A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-55A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/55A",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55A",
  "heading": "Adjudicator’s punishments",
  "text": "(1) If he finds a prisoner guilty of an offence against discipline the adjudicator may, subject to paragraph (2) and to rule 57, impose one or more of the following punishments:\n(a) the punishments mentioned in rule 55(1)(a) to (h), (j) and (k);\n(b) in the case of a ... fixed-term prisoner, an award of additional days not exceeding 84 days.\n(2) A caution shall not be combined with any other punishment for the same charge.\n(3) If a prisoner is found guilty of more than one charge arising out of an incident, punishments under this rule may be ordered to run consecutively but, in the case of an award of additional days, the total period added shall not exceed 84 days and, in the case of a punishment of cellular confinement, the total period shall not exceed 21 days.\n(4) This rule applies to a prisoner who has been charged with having committed an offence against discipline before the date on which the rule came into force, in the same way as it applies to a prisoner who has been charged with having committed an offence against discipline on or after that date, provided the charge is referred to the adjudicator no later than 60 days after that date.\n(5) Rule 53(3) shall not apply to a charge where, by virtue of paragraph (4), this rule applies to the prisoner who has been charged.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 55A inserted (15.8.2002) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2116), rule 1, Sch. para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 55A(1)(a) substituted (31.5.2024) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Adjudication) (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/212), rules 1(1), 2(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 55A(1)(a) substituted (2.9.2026) by The Prison (Governor’s and Adjudicators’ Punishments) (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/664), rules 1(1), 5(a)(i) (with rule 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 55A(1)(b) omitted (13.8.2014 at 5.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/2169), rules 1, 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 55A(1)(b) added (3.1.2006) by The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3437), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in rule 55A(1)(b) substituted (2.9.2026) by The Prison (Governor’s and Adjudicators’ Punishments) (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/664), rules 1(1), 5(a)(ii) (with rule 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in rule 55A(3) substituted (2.9.2026) by The Prison (Governor’s and Adjudicators’ Punishments) (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/664), rules 1(1), 5(b) (with rule 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/55A",
    "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."
}