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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-63",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1096",
  "legislation_title": "The Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009",
  "path": "article/63",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Appointment of the independent monitoring board",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State shall appoint an independent monitoring board for MCTC of not more than fourteen members.\n(2) The independent monitoring board shall have at least four members, at least two of whom shall be magistrates.\n(3) The persons who, immediately before the date of coming into force of these Rules, were members of the independent board of visitors of military establishments appointed under the Imprisonment and Detention (Army) Rules 1979 shall be deemed to have been appointed on that date as members of the independent monitoring board.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 63 in force at 31.10.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Rule 47 of S.I. 1979/1456, substituted by S.I. 1980/723."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1096/article/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:42.593997+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."
}