The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000

PART I Preliminary

Citation and commencement

1.—(a) These Rules may be cited as the Young Offender Institution Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(b) The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Rules, where the context so admits, the expression-

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

• “compulsory school age” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1996(1);

• “controlled drug” means any drug which is a controlled drug for the purposes of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971(2);

• “governor” includes an officer for the time being in charge of a young offender institution;

• “inmate” means a person who is required to be detained in a young offender institution;

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

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

• “minister appointed to a young offender institution” means a minister so appointed under section 10 of the Prison Act 1952;

• “officer” means an officer of a young offender institution;

• “short-term prisoner” and “long-term prisoner” have the meanings assigned to them by section 33(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991(3), as extended by sections 43(1) and 45(1) of that Act;

• “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.

(2) In these Rules a reference to—

(a) an award of additional days means additional days awarded under these Rules by virtue of section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991;

(b) the Church of England includes a reference to the Church of Wales; and

(c) a reference to a numbered rule is, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the rule of that number in these Rules and a reference to a numbered paragraph is in a rule, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the paragraph of that number in that rule.

(1)

1996 c. 56.

(2)

1971 c. 53.

(3)

1991 c. 53.