{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999/article-79.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/728",
  "legislation_title": "The Prison Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prison-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/79",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Members visiting prisons",
  "text": "(1) The members of the independent monitoring board for a prison shall visit the prison frequently, and the board shall arrange a rota whereby at least one of its members visits the prison between meetings of the board.\n(2) A member of the board shall have access at any time to every part of the prison and to every prisoner, and he may interview any prisoner out of the sight and hearing of officers.\n(3) A member of the board shall have access to the records of the prison, except that members of the board shall not have access to any records held for the purposes of or relating to conduct authorised in accordance with Part 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 79(1) substituted (1.11.2007) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/2954), rules 1, 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 79(3) substituted (1.11.2007) by The Prison (Amendment) Rules 2007 (S.I. 2007/2954), rules 1, 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/728/article/79",
    "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."
  }
}