The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000

PART I E+W Preliminary

Citation and commencement E+W

1.—(a) These Rules may be cited as the Young Offender Institution Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

(b) The Rules set out in [F1 Schedule 1] to this Order are hereby revoked.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in rule 1(b) substituted (19.10.2018) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/960), rules 1, 3(2)(a)

Interpretation E+W

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

• [F2 “adjudicator” means a District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) or Deputy District Judge (Magistrates' Courts) approved by the Lord Chancellor for the purpose of inquiring into a charge which has been referred to him;]

• “communication" includes any written or drawn communication from an inmate to any other person, whether intended to be transmitted by means of a postal service or not, and any communication from an inmate to any other person transmitted by means of a telecommunications system;

• “compulsory school age" has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1996 M1 ;

• “controlled drug" means any drug which is a controlled drug for the purposes of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971;

• [F3 “coronavirus” has the meaning given by section 1 of the 2020 Act (meaning of “coronavirus” and related terminology);]

• [F3 “coronavirus period” means the period of time inclusive of a transmission control period and the transition period which follows it;]

• [F4 “electronic cigarette” means a product that can be used for the consumption of nicotine-containing vapour via a mouth piece, or any component of that product, including a cartridge, a tank and the device without cartridge or tank (regardless of whether the product is disposable or refillable by means of a refill container and a tank, or rechargeable with single use cartridges).]

• [F5 “fixed-term prisoner” has the meaning assigned to it by section 237(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003;]

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

• [F6 “health care professional” means a person who is a member of a profession regulated by a body mentioned in section 25(3) of the National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Act 2002 and who is working within the young offender institution F7 ...;]

• [F8 “health care provider” includes any provider of health services, whether or not commissioned by an NHS body (within the meaning given by [F9 section 275(1)] of the National Health Service 2006)];

• [F10 “information technology equipment” includes any laptop or notebook computer, desktop computer, gaming console, handheld computing device, personal organiser or any electronic device containing a computer processor and capable of connecting to the internet, and any reference to information technology equipment includes a reference to–

  (a)

  a component part of a device of that description; or

  (b)

  any article designed or adapted for use with any information technology equipment (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds, computer code or other information may be stored or recorded)];

• “inmate" means a person who is required to be detained in a young offender institution;

• “intercepted material" means the contents of any communication intercepted pursuant to these Rules;

• “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;

• [F11 “specified drug” means any product or substance containing one or more of the chemical compounds listed in Schedule 2 to these Rules;]

• F12 ...

• F13 ...

• “telecommunications system" means any system (including the apparatus comprised in it) which exists for the purpose of facilitating the transmission of communications by any means involving the use of electrical or electro-magnetic energy;

• [F14 “the 2003 Act” means the Criminal Justice Act 2003.]

• [F15 “the 2020 Act” means the Coronavirus Act 2020;]

• [F15 “transition period” means the period provided for by rule 2A;]

• [F15 “transmission control period” has the meaning given by paragraph 5 of Schedule 21 to the 2020 Act.]

(2) In these Rules a reference to—

(a) an award of additional days means additional days awarded under these Rules by virtue of section 42 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 [F16 or by virtue of section 257 of the 2003 Act];

(b) the Church of England includes a reference to the Church of Wales; and

(c) a reference to a numbered rule is, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the rule of that number in these Rules and a reference to a numbered paragraph is in a rule, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the paragraph of that number in that rule.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in rule 2(1) substituted (18.4.2005) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/897), rule 1(1), Sch. para. 1 (with rule 1(2))

F3 Words in rule 2(1) inserted (temp.) (15.5.2020) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/508), rule 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 2(a) (with rule 1(3))

F4 Words in rule 2(1) inserted (22.5.2018) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/549), rules 1, 3(2)

F5 Words in rule 2(1) inserted (3.1.2006) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3438), rule 1, Sch. para. 1(a)(i)

F6 Words in rule 2(1) inserted (3.1.2006) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3438), rule 1, Sch. para. 1(a)(ii)

F7 Words in rule 2 omitted (1.1.2010) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(a)

F8 Words in rule 2 inserted (1.1.2010) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(b)

F9 Words in art. 2(1) substituted (1.4.2013 at 5 p.m.) by The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/235), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 44

F10 Words in rule 2(1) added (1.4.2008) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2008 (S.I. 2008/599), rules 1, 3

F11 Words in rule 2(1) substituted (19.10.2018) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/960), rules 1, 3(3)

F12 Words in rule 2 omitted (1.1.2010) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/3082), rule 1, Sch. 2 para. 1(c)

F13 Words in rule 2(1) omitted (13.8.2014 at 5.00 p.m.) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/2169), rules 1, 3(2)

F14 Words in rule 2(1) inserted (3.1.2006) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3438), rule 1, Sch. para. 1(a)(iv)

F15 Words in rule 2(1) inserted (temp.) (15.5.2020) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/508), rule 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 2(b) (with rule 1(3))

F16 Words in rule 2(2)(a) added (3.1.2006) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2005 (S.I. 2005/3438), rule 1, Sch. para. 1(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 1996 c. 56.

[F17 Coronavirus period – transition period E+W

2A.— (1) Subject to paragraphs (2) to (5), a transition period is the period of 3 months starting on the date on which a transmission control period ends.

(2) The Secretary of State may declare that a transition period is extended by such period of up to 1 month as specified in the declaration, if the Secretary of State considers that the declaration is necessary as a result of the effects, existing or new, of coronavirus on or in relation to inmates or young offender institutions.

(3) The Secretary of State—

(a) may declare that a transition period which has already been extended is further extended by such period of up to 1 month as is specified in the declaration; and

(b) subject to paragraph (4), may make further such declarations.

(4) The total period of the transition period must not exceed 6 months.

(5) The Secretary of State may at any time declare that a transition period has ended, or is to end, on such date, earlier than the transition period would otherwise end as is specified in the declaration.

(6) Any declaration under paragraph (2), (3) or (5) must be published in such a manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.]

Textual Amendments

F17 Rule 2A inserted (temp.) (15.5.2020) by virtue of The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Coronavirus) (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/508), rule 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 3 (with rule 1(3))