{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-training-centres-escorts-rules-1998/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-training-centres-escorts-rules-1998/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/473",
  "legislation_title": "The Secure Training Centres (Escorts) Rules 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secure-training-centres-escorts-rules-1998",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Secure Training Centres (Escorts) Rules 1998 and shall come into force on 16th April 1998.\n(2) In these Rules—\n(a) “officer” means a custody officer who is authorised to perform escort functions in accordance with section 12 of the 1994 Act;\n(b) “offender” means an offender for whose delivery or custody an officer is responsible in pursuance of escort arrangements;\n(c) “the 1994 Act” means the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/473/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:36:39.939561+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."
}