Citation and commencement1

Interpretation2

• F3“adjudicator” means a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) approved by the Lord Chancellor for the purpose of inquiring into a charge which has been referred to him;

• F1“communication” includes any written or drawn communication from a prisoner to any other person, whether intended to be transmitted by means of a postal service or not, and any communication from a prisoner to any other person transmitted by means of a telecommunications system;

• M1“controlled drug" means any drug which is a controlled drug for the purposes of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 ;

• “convicted prisoner" means, subject to the provisions of rule 7(3), a prisoner who has been convicted or found guilty of an offence or committed or attached for contempt of court or for failing to do or abstain from doing anything required to be done or left undone, and the expression “unconvicted prisoner" shall be construed accordingly;

• F4“fixed term prisoner has the meaning assigned to it by section 237(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;

• “governor" includes an officer for the time being in charge of a prison;

• F5“health care professional” means a person who is a member of a profession regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 and who is working within the prison F9...;

• F10“health care provider” includes any provider of health services, whether or not commissioned by an NHS body (within the meaning given by F12section 275(1) of the National Health Service 2006);

• F8“information technology equipment” includes any laptop or notebook computer, desktop computer, gaming console, handheld computing device, personal organiser or any electronic device containing a computer processor and capable of connecting to the internet, and any reference to information technology equipment includes a reference to–

  1. a

     a component part of a device of that description; or

  2. b

     any article designed or adapted for use with any information technology equipment (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds, computer code or other information may be stored or recorded);

• F1“intercepted material” means the contents of any communication intercepted pursuant to these Rules;

• F2“intermittent custody order” has the meaning assigned to it by section 183 of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;

• “legal adviser" means, in relation to a prisoner, his counsel or solicitor, and includes a clerk acting on behalf of his solicitor;

• M2“officer" means an officer of a prison and, for the purposes of rule 40(2), includes a prisoner custody officer who is authorised to perform escort functions in accordance with section 89 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ;

• “prison minister" means, in relation to a prison, a minister appointed to that prison under section 10 of the Prison Act 1952;

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• F1“telecommunications system” means any system (including the apparatus comprised in it) which exists for the purpose of facilitating the transmission of communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy;

• F6“the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003.