PART IPRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 and shall come into force on 1st October 1988.

Interpretation

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

“compulsory school age” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1944(1);

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

“inmate” means a person detained in a young offender institution;

“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.

(2) In these Rules a reference to the Church of England includes a reference to the Church in Wales.

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

(1)

1944 c. 31; section 35 of that Act was amended by the Raising of School Leaving Age Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/444).