{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-59.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/59",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Prospective award of additional days",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), where an offence against discipline is committed by a prisoner who is detained only on remand, additional days may be awarded by the adjudicator notwithstanding that the prisoner has not (or had not at the time of the offence) been sentenced.\n(2) An award of additional days under paragraph (1) shall have effect only if the prisoner in question subsequently becomes a ... fixed-term prisoner whose sentence is reduced, under section 67 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 or section 240ZA of the 2003 Act, by a period which includes the time when the offence against discipline was committed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 59(1) inserted (15.8.2002) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2116), rule 1, Sch. para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 59(2) 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(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 59(2) added (3.1.2006) by The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3437), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 15(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 59(2) added (3.1.2006) by The Prison (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3437), rule 1, Sch. 1 para. 15(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in rule 59(2) substituted (2.9.2026) by The Prison (Governor’s and Adjudicators’ Punishments) (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/664), rules 1(1), 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1967 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/59",
    "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."
}