(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules, which come into force on 16th April 1998, make provision for the regulation and management of secure training centres and for the classification, treatment, discipline and control of persons detained in them. They also provide for the inspection of secure training centres and the appointment of independent persons to visit them.

By virtue of rule 46, these Rules apply to contracted-out secure training centres with the modifications set out in that rule.