Prison Act 1952

Remand centres, detention centres and Borstal institutions U.K.

[F2 43 [F1 Remand centres, detention centres and youth custody centres. E+W

(1) The Secretary of State may provide—

(a) remand centres, that is to say places for the detention of persons not less than 14 but under 21 years of age who are remanded or committed in custody for trial or sentence;

[F3 (aa) young offender institutions, that is to say places for the detention of offenders sentenced to detention in a young offender institution [F4 or to custody for life]];]

(b), (c). F5 F6 . . .

[F7 (d) secure training centres, that is to say places in which offenders not less than 12 but under 17 years of age in respect of whom secure training orders have been made under section 1 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 may be detained and given training and education and prepared for their release]

(2) The Secretary of State may from time to time direct—

(a) that a woman aged 21 years or over who is serving a sentence of imprisonment or who has been committed to prison for default shall be detained in a remand centre or a youth custody centre instead of a prison:

(b) that a woman aged 21 years or over who is remanded in custody or committed in custody for trial or sentence shall be detained in a remand centre instead of a prison;

(c) that a person under 21 but not less than 17 years of age who is remanded in custody or committed in custody for trial or sentence shall be detained in a prison instead of a remand centre or a remand centre instead of a prison, notwithstanding anything in section 27 of the Criminal Justice Act 1948 or section 23(3) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1969.

(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) above, any person required to be detained in an institution to which this Act applies may be detained in a remand centre for any temporary purpose [F8 and a person [F9 aged 18 years] or over may be detained in such a centre] for the purpose of providing maintenance and domestic services for that centre.

(4) Sections 5A, 6(2) and (3), 16, 22, 25 and 36 of this Act shall apply to remand centres, detention centres and youth custody centres and to persons detained in them as they apply to prisons and prisoners.]

[F10 (4A) Sections 16, 22 and 36 of this Act shall apply to secure training centres and to persons detained in them as they apply to prisons and prisoners.]

(5) The other provisions of this Act preceding this section, except sections 28 and 37(2) above, shall apply to [F11 centres of the descriptions specified in subsection (4) above] and to persons detained in them as they apply to prisons and prisoners, but subject to such adaptation and modifications as may be specified in rules made by the Secretary of State.

[F12 (5A) The other provisions of this Act preceding this section, except sections 5, 5A, 6(2) and (3), 12, 14, 19, 25, 28 and 37(2) and (3) above, shall apply to secure training centres and to persons detained in them as they apply to prisons and prisoners, but subject to such adaptations and modifications as may be specified in rules made by the Secretary of State.]

(6) References in the preceding provisions of this Act to imprisonment shall, so far as those provisions apply to institutions provided under this section, be construed as including references to detention in those institutions.

(7) Nothing in this section shall be taken to prejudice the operation of section 12 of the Criminal Justice Act 1982.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 43(1)(aa) inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170, Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 15 para. 11

F2 S. 43 substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 11

F3 S. 43(1)(aa) inserted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170, Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 15 para. 11

F4 Words in s. 43(1)(aa) inserted (3.2.1995) by 1994 c. 33, s. 18(3); S.I. 1995/127, art. 2(1), Sch. 1

F5 S. 43(1)(b)(c) repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170, Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 16

F6 Word in s. 43(1) repealed (1.3.1998) by 1994 c. 33, s. 168(3), Sch. 11; S.I. 1998/277, art. 3(3)

F7 S. 43(1)(d) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 33, ss. 5(2), 172(4)

F8 Words substituted by Criminal Justice Act 1988 (c. 33, SIF 39:1), s. 170, Sch. 8 para. 16, Sch. 15 para. 12

F9 Words in s. 43(3) substituted (1.10.1992) by Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53, SIF 39:1), s. 68, Sch. 8 para. 2; S.I. 1992/333, art. 2(2), Sch. 2

F10 S. 43(4A) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 33, ss. 5(3), 172(4)

F11 Words in s. 43(5) substituted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 33, ss. 5(4), 172(4)

F12 S. 43(5A) inserted (3.11.1994) by 1994 c. 33, ss. 5(5), 172(4)

44—46. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F13 E+W

Textual Amendments

F13 Ss. 44–46 repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), Sch. 16