{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-50.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/50",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Offences against discipline",
  "text": "An inmate shall be guilty of an offence against discipline if he–\n(1) mutinies or incites another inmate to mutiny;\n(2) does gross personal violence to an officer;\n(3) does gross personal violence to any person not being an officer;\n(4) commits any assault;\n(5) absconds from a young offender institution or from legal custody;\n(6) absents himself without permission from any place where he is required to be, whether within or outside a young offender institution;\n(7) has in his possession or in his cell or room any unauthorised article, or attempts to obtain such an article;\n(8) delivers to or receives from any person any unauthorised article;\n(9) sells or delivers to any person, without permission, anything he is allowed to have only for his own use;\n(10) takes improperly or is in unauthorised possession of any article belonging to another person or to a young offender institution;\n(11) wilfully damages or disfigures any part of the institution or any property not his own;\n(12) makes any false and malicious allegation against an officer;\n(13) treats with disrespect an officer or any person visiting a young offender institution;\n(14) uses any abusive, insolent, threatening or other improper language;\n(15) is indecent in language, act or gesture;\n(16) repeatedly makes groundless complaints;\n(17) is idle, careless or negligent at work or refuses to work;\n(18) disobeys any lawful order or refuses or neglects to conform to any rule or regulation of the institution;\n(19) attempts to do any of the foregoing things;\n(20) in any way offends against good order and discipline; or\n(21) does not return to a young offender institution when he should have returned after being temporarily released under rule 6 of these Rules, or does not comply with any condition upon which he was so released.",
  "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/50",
    "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."
}