Offender Management Act 2007

26 Independent monitoring boards E+W

(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.

Commencement Information

I1 S. 26 in force at 1.11.2007 by S.I. 2007/3001, art. 2(1)(g)