Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Young Offender Institution Rules 1988, as amended. They make two separate groups of changes.

First they make changes to the rules relating to privileges for inmates. Paragraph 2 of the Schedule substitutes a new rule 7 which makes more detailed provision in relation to the systems of privileges required to be established at every young offender institution. Paragraphs 1, 3, 4 and 5 of the Schedule make related provision.

Secondly paragraph 6 of the Schedule amends paragraph (3) of rule 42 to restrict the effect of its provisions, which relate to the clothing which an inmate wears when he is taken in custody to any court, to the time when the inmate appears before the court.