The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 1990

Statutory Instruments

1990 No. 1763

YOUNG OFFENDER INSTITUTIONS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 1990

Made

27th August 1990

Laid before Parliament

4th September 1990

Coming into force

25th September 1990

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 47 of the Prison Act 1952(1), I hereby make the following Rules:

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 1990 and shall come into force on 25th September 1990.

2.  The Young Offender Institution Rules 1988(2) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in rule 8(1) (information to inmates), the words “and of petitioning the Secretary of State” shall be omitted;

(b) for rule 9 there shall be substituted —

“Requests and Complaints

9.— (1) A request or complaint to the governor or Board of Visitors relating to an inmate’s detention shall be made orally or in writing by that inmate.

(2) On every day the governor shall hear any oral requests and complaints that are made to him under paragraph (1) above.

(3) A written request or complaint under paragraph (1) above may be made in confidence.”.

David Waddington

One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

27th August 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Rules)

These Rules amend the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988, as amended, in two respects.

Rule 2 removes the reference to the method of petitioning the Secretary of State in the rule regarding the provision of information to inmates, consequent upon the introduction of a new requests and complaints procedure.

Rule 2(b) makes new provision for inmates' requests and complaints regarding their detention. It requires the governor to hear on every day any oral requests and complaints that are made to him and establishes the right to make a request or complaint to the governor or Board of Visitors in writing in confidence.

(1)

1952 c. 52; section 47 was affected by an amendment to section 52 of that Act by section 66(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80). Paragraph 1 of Schedule 8 to the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33) contains amendments affecting these provisions.

(2)

S.I. 1988/1422, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Rules.