# Offender Management Act 2007, Section 26: Independent monitoring boards


(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/21/section/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/offender-management-act-2007/section-26
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