{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1422",
  "legislation_title": "The Young Offender Institution Rules 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Rules, where the context so admits, the expression:–\n“compulsory school age” has the same meaning as in the Education Act 1944;\n“governor” includes an officer for the time being in charge of a young offender institution;\n“inmate” means a person detained in a young offender institution;\n“legal adviser” means, in relation to an inmate, his counsel or solicitor, and includes a clerk acting on behalf of his solicitor;\n“minister appointed to a young offender institution” means a minister so appointed under section 10 of the Prison Act 1952;\n“officer” means an officer of a young offender institution.\n(2) In these Rules a reference to the Church of England includes a reference to the Church in Wales.\n(3) The Rules set out in the Schedule to this Order are hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1944 c. 31; section 35 of that Act was amended by the Raising of School Leaving Age Order 1972 (S.I. 1972/444)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1422/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:46.097107+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}