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Adult Custodial Rules and appendices

The rules below form the majority of the overall system of prisons and prisoner management derived from the Prisons Act 1981.

Prior to March 2010 Adult Custodial Rules were known as Director General Rules.

Number	Name	Appendix
AC 1	Management of Prisoners in Confinement
	Regime for Prisoners who are placed in Separate Confinement	1
	Regime for Prisoners Sentenced to Confinement in Sleeping Quarters	2
	Regime for Prisoners Sentenced to Confinement to a Punishment Cell	3
AC 3	Privileges
AC 4	Association of Officers with Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners
AC 5	Requests, Complaints and Grievances by Prisoners
AC 6	Association of Male and Female Prisoners
AC 7	Communication - Visits (updated July 2020)
	Visiting Times - Family and Friends (updated March 2019)	2
	Visiting Times - Official Visitors (Prisons Act 1981 s 61) (updated October 2018)	3
	Declaration under s 60	4
	Visits Code of Conduct	5
	Visitor Dress Standards	6
	Application for video link visits (Revoked November 2019)	7
AC 8	Use of Computers by Prisoners (Revoked January 2014)
AC 9	Provision of Condoms and Dental Dams to Prisoners
AC 10	Issue of Medication by Officers
AC 11	Permitted and Prohibited Material (updated January 2014)
	Access to Audio, Visual or Printed Material	1
AC 12	Designation of Officers as Prison Officers (superseded by Prison Rule 401 on 19 January 2016)
AC 15	Use of Firearms
AC 18	Assessment and Sentence Management of Prisoners (See COPP 2.3)