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  "title": "The Secure Training Centre Rules 1998",
  "long_title": "These Rules, which come into force on 16th April 1998, make provision for the regulation and management of secure training centres and for the classification, treatment, discipline and control of persons detained in them. They also provide for the inspection of secure training centres and the appointment of independent persons to visit them.",
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