{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/approved-probation-and-bail-hostel-rules-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/approved-probation-and-bail-hostel-rules-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/302",
  "legislation_title": "The Approved Probation and Bail Hostel Rules 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/approved-probation-and-bail-hostel-rules-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules make provision for the regulation and management of approved probation and bail hostels. The Rules replace with modifications the Approved Probation Hostel and Home and Bail Hostel Rules 1976 (S.I. 1976/626).\nManagement committees of hostels run by persons other than the probation service ( “management committees”) are, subject to the approval of the local probation committee, given more flexibility as to the terms of their constitutions and are required to publish annual reports. Representatives of the probation service are entitled to attend management committee meetings.\nGeneral duties in relation to the manner in which hostels are to be run, the control of expenditure and staff matters, which previously applied only to management committees, are applied with modifications to both management committees and probation committees.\nOther changes are that committees are required to adopt an admissions policy in relation to each hostel managed by them, and to notify the local courts of that policy; that the Secretary of State’s approval is no longer required to the appointment of a person as a hostel manager (referred to in the 1976 Rules as a “warden”); and that the provisions in the 1976 Rules as to the specific facilities to be afforded to residents (other than medical facilities) are not reproduced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/302/note",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}