The Regulatory Reform (Prison Officers) (Industrial Action) Order 2005

• Citation: S.I. 2005/908
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Regulatory Reform (Prison Officers) (Industrial Action) Order 2005 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

Section 2 Amendment of section 127(4) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994

Section 127(4) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (“the 1994 Act ”) (inducements to prison officers to withhold services or to indiscipline) shall be amended as follows:

(a) in paragraph (a), omit the words “for the purposes of section 7 of the Prison Act 1952 or”; and

(b) omit paragraph (b).

Section 3 Consequential provision

For section 128(5) of the 1994 Act substitute:

(5) For the purposes of this section, the prison service comprises all the individuals who:

(a) hold any post, otherwise than as a chaplain or assistant chaplain or as a medical officer, to which those individuals have been appointed for the purposes of section 7 of the Prison Act 1952 or under section 2(2) of the Prison Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (appointment of prison staff); or

(b) hold any post, otherwise than as a medical officer, to which those individuals have been appointed for the purposes of section 3(1A) of the Prisons (Scotland) Act 1989.