{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-20.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/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Food",
  "text": "(1) Subject to any directions of the Secretary of State, no inmate shall be allowed, except as authorised by a health care professional working within the young offender institution, to have any food other than that ordinarily provided.\n(2) The food provided shall be wholesome, nutritious, well prepared and served, reasonably varied and sufficient in quantity.\n(3) ... Any person deemed by the governor to be competent, shall from time to time inspect the food both before and after it is cooked, and shall report any deficiency or defect to the governor.\n(4) In this rule, “food\" includes drink.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(1) substituted (3.1.2006) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3438), rule 1, Sch. para. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(1) substituted (1.1.2010) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 4(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 20(3) omitted (3.1.2006) by virtue of The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3438), rule 1, Sch. para. 3(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3371/article/20",
    "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."
}