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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-46.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/46",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "46",
  "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 or as the Secretary of State may direct.\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 of a person of the opposite sex.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3371/article/46",
    "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."
}