1. These Rules may be cited as the Prison (Amendment) Rules 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.
2.—(1) The Prison Rules 1964(1)(“the principal Rules”) shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the Schedule to these Rules.
(2) In relation to charges referred to the Board of Visitors by the governor pursuant to rule 51(1) of the principal Rules and applications to remit or mitigate punishments made to them pursuant to rule 56(2) of the principal Rules before the coming into force of these Rules, the Board of Visitors shall continue to exercise their powers under rules 51 and 56(2), as appropriate, as if these Rules had not been made.
Kenneth Baker
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
6th March 1992