{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-71.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/71",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Offences in relation to service custody premises and persons under sentence",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of sections 39 to 42 of the Prison Act 1952 and section 22(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1961 shall apply in relation to service custody premises and detainees in such premises, subject to the modifications in the table below and paragraph (2).\nFor references to:\nthere shall be substituted:\n“governor or director”\n“commandant”\n“officer”\n“any member of staff of service custody premises”\n“prison”\n“service custody premises within the meaning of section 300 of the Armed Forces Act 2006”\n“prison rules”\n“the Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009”\n“the Prison Commissioners”\n“the commandant”\n“prisoner”\n“person detained in service custody for the purposes of the Armed Forces Act 2006”\n(2) In section 22(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1962 for the words from “or other institutions” to “or detention” there shall be substituted the words “or, who being a person detained in service custody for the purposes of the Armed Forces Act 2006 or serving a relevant sentence within the meaning of section 300(7) of the Armed Forces Act 2006”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 71 in force at 31.10.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1952 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1961 c. 39."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1096/article/71",
    "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."
}