{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000/article-60.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/3371",
  "legislation_title": "The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-2000",
  "path": "article/60",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Governor’s punishments",
  "text": "(1) If he finds an inmate guilty of an offence against discipline the governor may, subject to paragraph (3) and rule 65, impose one or more of the following punishments:\n(a) caution;\n(b) forfeiture for a period not exceeding 21 days of any of the privileges under rule 6;\n(c) removal for a period not exceeding 21 days from any particular activity or activities of the young offender institution, other than education, training courses, work and physical education in accordance with rules 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41;\n(d) extra work outside the normal working week for a period not exceeding 21 days and for not more than two hours on any day;\n(e) stoppage of or deduction from earnings for a period not exceeding 42 days of ...;\n(f) in the case of an offence against discipline committed by an inmate who was aged 18 or over at the time of commission of the offence, other than an inmate who is serving the period of detention and training under a detention and training order pursuant to section 100 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 or section 233 of the Sentencing Code, confinement to a cell or room for a period not exceeding ten days;\n(g) removal from his wing or living unit for a period not exceeding 21 days;\n(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(i) payback punishment, unless the inmate is an unconvicted inmate;\n(2) If an inmate is found guilty of more than one charge arising out of an incident punishments under this rule may be ordered to run consecutively, but in the case of a punishment of cellular confinement the total period shall not exceed ten days.\n(3) ... A caution shall not be combined with any other punishment for the same charge.\n(4) In imposing a punishment under this rule, the governor shall take into account any guidelines that the Secretary of State may from time to time issue as to the level of punishment that should normally be imposed for a particular offence against discipline.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 60(1) substituted (15.8.2002) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2117), rule 1, Sch. para. 5(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 60(1)(e) omitted (15.8.2002) by virtue of The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2117), rule 1, Sch. para. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 60(1)(f) inserted (1.12.2020) by Sentencing Act 2020 (c. 17), s. 416(1), Sch. 24 para. 328 (with Sch. 27); S.I. 2020/1236, reg. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 60(1)(f) substituted (15.8.2002) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2117), rule 1, Sch. para. 5(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Rule 60(1)(h) omitted (15.8.2002) by virtue of The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2117), rule 1, Sch. para. 5(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Rule 60(1)(i) inserted (31.5.2024) by The Prison and Young Offender Institution (Adjudication) (Amendment) Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/212), rules 1(1), 3(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in rule 60(2) substituted (15.8.2002) by The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2117), rule 1, Sch. para. 5(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in rule 60(3) omitted (15.8.2002) by virtue of The Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2002 (S.I. 2002/2117), rule 1, Sch. para. 5(f)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/3371/article/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:07:57.851107+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."
}