Section 27 Amendment of section 8A of the Prison Act 1952I1

(1)

Section 8A of the Prison Act 1952 (powers of search by authorised employees at a directly managed prison) is amended as follows.

(2)

In the side note, for “employees” there is substituted “ persons ”.

(3)

In subsections (1) and (2), for “employee” there is substituted “ person ”.

(4)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

for “authorised employee” there is substituted “ authorised person ”; and

(b)

for “an employee” there is substituted “ a person working at the prison, ”.

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