{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3371",
  "legislation_title": "The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Visits from legal advisers",
  "text": "(1) Where the legal adviser of an inmate in any legal proceedings, civil or criminal, to which the inmate is a party visits the inmate, the legal adviser shall be afforded reasonable facilities for interviewing him in connection with those proceedings, and may do so out of hearing of an officer.\n(2) On such a visit, an inmate’s legal adviser may, with the leave of the Secretary of State, interview the inmate in connection with any other legal business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in rule 16(1) inserted (1.1.2010) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 16(1) inserted (1.1.2010) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 16(2) inserted (1.1.2010) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 16 heading inserted (1.1.2010) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 6(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3371/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:07:57.851107+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."
}