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Regulation 11 Residents subject to a residence requirement

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(1)

Where a person is subject to a requirement (in this regulation referred to as a “residence requirement”) to reside at the approved premises by virtue of—

(a)

a term of any court order; or

(b)

any condition of a licence or requirement imposed under section 65 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991,

the managing body must not, except in the circumstances described in paragraph (2) below, require him to end his residence before the expiry of the residence requirement.

(2)

The circumstances referred to in paragraph (1) above are—

(a)

that an emergency has arisen; or

(b)

that the resident has broken the house rules and that breach has been reported—

(i)

in a case to which paragraph (1)(a) applies, to the court which made the order; or

(ii)

in a case to which paragraph (1)(b) applies, to the Prison Service.

(3)

Where the managing body for any approved premises intends to require a person who is subject to a residence requirement to end his residence at the premises, it must give reasonable notice of that intention to any officer of a local probation board responsible for the resident and, in the case of a resident on bail, to the court which granted bail.