Article 19 Amendment of rule 32 of the principal Rules

(1)

Rule 32 of the principal Rules (records of medical treatment) is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this rule.

(2)

In paragraph (1), for the words “the medical officer”, there are substituted the words “a medical officer”.

(3)

For paragraph (2) there is substituted the following paragraph:–

“(2)

Where–

(a)

a prisoner is moved from any prison to any other prison; or

(b)

a young offender is moved from any young offenders institution to any other institution or to a prison in terms of section 20A or 21 of the Act^f1,

a medical officer of the prison or young offenders institution from which the person is moved shall send his medical record to a medical officer of the prison or young offenders institution to which he is moved.”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 45; section 20A was inserted by the Prisoners and Criminal Proceedings (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 9), section 23; section 21 was amended by the said Act of 1993, Schedule 5, paragraph 6(5) and Schedule 7 and by the Criminal Procedure (Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1995 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 75(3).