{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-43.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1422",
  "legislation_title": "The Young Offender Institution Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Search",
  "text": "(1) Every inmate shall be searched when taken into custody by an officer, on his reception into a young offender institution and subsequently as the governor thinks necessary.\n(2) An inmate shall be searched in as seemly a manner as is consistent with discovering anything concealed.\n(3) No inmate shall be stripped and searched in the sight of another inmate or in the sight or presence of an officer not of the same sex.\n(4) An inmate shall be searched only by an officer of the same sex.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1422/article/43",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:46.097107+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."
}