Part 2

Prisons

Other amendments of the Prison Act 1952

Independent monitoring boards
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1
The boards appointed under section 6 of the Prison Act 1952 (boards of visitors) are renamed as independent monitoring boards.
2
Accordingly, in section 6 of that Act—
a
for the sidenote there is substituted “Independent monitoring boards”;
b
in subsection (2), for “board of visitors” there is substituted “group of independent monitors”;
c
after subsection (2) there is inserted—
2A
The groups so appointed are to be known as independent monitoring boards.
; and
d
in subsection (3), for “boards of visitors” there is substituted “independent monitoring boards” and for “a board of visitors” there is substituted “an independent monitoring board”.
3
In section 6(2) of that Act the words from “of whom” to the end cease to have effect.