Criminal Justice Act 1948

52 Rules for the management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres, attendance centres and Borstal institutions.

(1) The Secretary of State may make rules for the regulation and management of prisons, remand centres, detention centres, attendance centres and Borstal institutions respectively, and for the classification, treatment, employment, discipline and control of persons required to be detained therein.

(2) Rules made under this section shall make provision for ensuring that a person who is charged with any offence under the rules shall be given a proper opportunity of presenting his case.

(3) Rules made under this section may provide for the training of particular classes of persons and their allocation for that purpose to any prison or other institution in which they may lawfully be detained.

(4) Rules made under this section shall provide for the special treatment of the following persons whilst required to be detained in a prison, that is to say—

(a) any person serving a sentence of preventive detention;

(b) any person serving a sentence on conviction of sedition, seditious conspiracy or seditious libel;

(c) any appellant within the meaning of the Criminal Appeal Act, 1907, pending the determination of his appeal;

(d) any other person detained in a prison, not being a person serving a sentence or a person imprisoned in default of payment of a sum adjudged to be paid by him on his conviction.