- Status
- In Force
- Penalty ceiling
- Regulated
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 3 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
s.art021
Special illnesses and conditions
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Prison medical officer must report prisoners whose health is at riskCrown / Minister / Government department
s.art049
Restraints
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Governor must notify monitoring board and medical staff of prisoner restraintCrown / Minister / Government department
s.art058
Cellular confinement
Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Prison governor must consult medical staff before imposing cellular confinementCrown / Minister / Government department
102 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.art001
Citation and commencement
s.art002
Interpretation
s.art002
Coronavirus period – transition period
s.art003
Purpose of prison training and treatment
s.art004
Outside contacts
s.art005
After care
s.art006
Maintenance of order and discipline
s.art007
Classification of prisoners
s.art008
Privileges
s.art009
Temporary release
s.art009
Coronavirus Restricted Temporary Release
s.art010
Information to prisoners
s.art011
Requests and complaints
s.art012
Women prisoners
s.art013
Religious denomination
s.art014
Special duties of chaplains and prison ministers
s.art015
Regular visits by ministers of religion
s.art016
Religious services
s.art017
Substitute for chaplain or prison minister
s.art018
Sunday work
s.art019
Religious books
s.art020
Health services
s.art022
Notification of illness or death
s.art023
Clothing
s.art024
Food
s.art025
Alcohol and tobacco
s.art026
Sleeping accommodation
s.art027
Beds and bedding
s.art028
Hygiene
s.art029
Physical education
s.art030
Time in the open air
s.art031
Work
s.art031
Prescription of certain matters in respect of prisoners’ earnings
s.art032
Education
s.art033
Library
s.art034
Communications generally
s.art035
Personal letters and visits
s.art035
Interception of communications
s.art035
Permanent log of communications
s.art035
Disclosure of material
s.art035
Retention of material
s.art036
Police interviews
s.art037
Securing release
s.art038
Visits from legal advisers
s.art039
Delivery and receipt of legally privileged material
s.art040
Custody outside prison
s.art041
Search
s.art042
Record and photograph
s.art043
Prisoners’ property
s.art044
Money and articles received by post
s.art045
Removal from association
s.art046
Close supervision centres
s.art046
Separation centres
s.art047
Use of force
s.art048
Temporary confinement
s.art050
Compulsory testing for controlled drugs , pharmacy medicines and other substances etc. ...
s.art050
Observation of prisoners by means of an overt closed circuit television system
s.art050
Compulsory testing for alcohol
s.art051
Offences against discipline
s.art051
Interpretation of rule 51
s.art052
Defences to rule 51(9)
s.art052
Defences to rule 51(10) and rule 51(11)
s.art053
Disciplinary charges
s.art053
Determination of mode of inquiry
s.art053
Determination of mode of inquiry in a coronavirus period
s.art054
Rights of prisoners charged
s.art055
Governor’s punishments
s.art055
Adjudicator’s punishments
s.art055
Requirement to pay for damage to prison property
s.art055
Review of adjudicator’s punishment
s.art056
Forfeiture of remission to be treated as an award of additional days
s.art057
Offences committed by young persons
s.art059
Prospective award of additional days
s.art059
Removal from a cell or living unit
s.art060
Suspended punishments
s.art061
Remission and mitigation of punishments , variation of compensation requirements and quashing of findings of guilt
s.art061
Enforcement of compensation requirements
s.art062
General duty of officers
s.art063
Gratuities forbidden
s.art064
Search of officers
s.art065
Transactions with prisoners
s.art066
Contact with former prisoners
s.art067
Communications to the press
s.art068
Code of discipline
s.art069
Emergencies
s.art070
Prohibited articles
s.art070
List C Articles
s.art071
Control of persons and vehicles
s.art072
Viewing of prisons
s.art073
Visitors
s.art074
Disqualification for membership
s.art075
Independent monitoring board
s.art076
Proceedings of boards
s.art077
General duties of boards
s.art078
Particular duties
s.art079
Members visiting prisons
s.art080
Annual report
s.art081
Delegation by governor
s.art082
Contracted out prisons
s.art083
Contracted out parts of prisons
s.art084
Contracted out functions at directly managed prisons
s.art085
Revocations and savings
Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.