1. These Rules may be cited as the Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 1996 and shall come into force on 22nd July 1996.
2. The Young Offender Institution Rules 1988(1) shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the Schedule to these Rules.
3. Without prejudice to the operation of the Interpretation Act 1978(2), any appointment of a chairman or a vice chairman of a board of visitors for a young offender institution made under rule 73(3) of the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 as in force prior to the commencement of these Rules shall be deemed to have been made under rule 73(3) of the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988 as substituted by paragraph 8 of the Schedule to these Rules.
Home Office
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
24th June 1996