{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-65",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-65.json",
  "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/65",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "65",
  "heading": "Duties of the independent monitoring board on inspection of MCTC",
  "text": "(1) On each inspection of MCTC under rule 64(1)(a) the independent monitoring board shall inspect in particular—\n(a) the treatment, health and welfare of detainees;\n(b) the condition of the premises; and\n(c) the administration of detainees’ affairs.\n(2) Without prejudice to the duties set out in paragraph (1), the members of the independent monitoring board shall, on each inspection of MCTC, ensure that they—\n(a) see all detainees;\n(b) hear, in private if they think that appropriate, any complaint or request that a detainee may wish to make to them; and\n(c) inspect the food prepared for the detainees.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 65 in force at 31.10.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1096/article/65",
    "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."
}