Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 983
The Prison (Amendment) Rules 1995
(The document as of February, 2008)
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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1995 No. 983
PRISONS
The Prison (Amendment) Rules 1995
| Laid before Parliament | 4th April 1995 |
| Coming into force | 25th April 1995 |
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 47 of the Prison Act 1952[1], I hereby make the following Rules:
1. These Rules may be cited as the Prison (Amendment) Rules 1995 and shall come into force on 25th April 1995.
2. The Prison Rules 1964[2] shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in the Schedule to these Rules.
3.—(1) Without prejudice to the operation of the Interpretation Act 1978[3], where, prior to the coming into force of these Rules, a prisoner has been temporarily released under rule 6 of the Prison Rules 1964 as then in force and is still at large at the moment these Rules come into force, he shall be deemed, after the coming into force of these Rules, to have been released under rule 6 of the Prison Rules 1964 as substituted by paragraph 2 of the Schedule to these Rules, notwithstanding the fact (if it be the case) that he would not have qualified for release under rule 6 as so substituted.
(2) Without prejudice to the operation of the Interpretation Act 1978, references in the following provisions of the Prison Rules 1964, however expressed, to rule 6 of those Rules shall be construed as including a reference to rule 6 of those Rules as in force prior to the coming into force of these Rules: rules 6(5)(b) and (6) (as substituted by these Rules) and 47(8).
4. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Schedule shall not apply in relation to offences against discipline committed before the coming into force of these Rules.
Michael Howard
One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State
Home Office
1st April 1995
Notes:[1] 1952 c. 52; section 47 was affected by an amendment to section 52(2) of that Act by section 66(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80) and was extended by sections 42, 85(2) and 85(4) of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53).
[2] S.I. 1964/388; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1971/2019, 1989/330, 1989/2141, 1992/514, 1992/2080 and 1993/3075.
[3] 1978 c. 30.
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