{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-78.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/78",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Particular duties",
  "text": "(1) The independent monitoring board for a prison and any member of the board shall hear any complaint or request which a prisoner wishes to make to them or him.\n(2) The board shall arrange for the food of the prisoners to be inspected by a member of the board at frequent intervals.\n(3) The board shall inquire into any report made to them, whether or not by a member of the board, that a prisoner’s health, mental or physical, is likely to be injuriously affected by any conditions of his imprisonment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 78(1) substituted (1.4.2008) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/597), rules 1, 4(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/78",
    "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."
  }
}