{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/short-term-holding-facility-rules-2018/article-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/short-term-holding-facility-rules-2018/article-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/409",
  "legislation_title": "The Short-term Holding Facility Rules 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/short-term-holding-facility-rules-2018",
  "path": "article/25",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Visits",
  "text": "(1) Subject to such reasonable limits and conditions as are imposed by the Secretary of State, a detained person may receive as many visits from persons outside the short-term holding facility as the detained person wishes.\n(2) A visit to a detained person must take place in the sight of an officer unless the Secretary of State directs otherwise.\n(3) Subject to rule 27 (legal adviser) a visit to a detained person must take place out of the hearing of an officer unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs in a particular case in the interests of the security of the short-term holding facility or the safety of the detained person or other persons, in which case the detained person must be given reasons for the direction in advance.\n(4) A person visiting a detained person at a short-term holding facility must not, without the authority of the Secretary of State—\n(a) take a photograph whilst there;\n(b) take any other form of digital or electronic record whilst there.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/409/article/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:59:42.122735+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."
}