Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Prison Rules 1964, as amended, so as to make provision for the award of additional days which replaces forfeiture of remission as a punishment available to the governor of a prison in respect of a short-term or long-term prisoner, or a prisoner on remand who subsequently becomes such a prisoner, who is guilty of a disciplinary offence.

In addition, the Rules provide that the provisions of Part II of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 shall apply to an existing prisoner or licensee who has forfeited any remission of his sentence as if he had been awarded the same number of additional days as the number of days of remission which he has forfeited.

The Rules also remove the requirement that prisoners be searched only by an officer of the same sex.