Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (Specified Organisations) Order 2007

• Citation: S.I. 2007/1173
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons (Specified Organisations) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 1st May 2007.

(2) In this Order—

“the 1952 Act ” means the Prison Act 1952;

“the 1991 Act ” means the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ;

“the 1999 Act ” means the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999 .

Section 2 Specified organisations

The following persons are specified as organisations for the purposes of paragraph 3(4) of Schedule A1 to the 1952 Act (inspections by other inspectors of organisations within Chief Inspector’s remit)—

(a) a Governor or other person working at a prison as defined in section 53(1) of the 1952 Act (interpretation);

(b) a director, controller or other person working at a contracted out prison as defined in section 84(4) of the 1991 Act (contracted out prisons) ;

(c) a Governor or other person working at a young offender institution as defined in section 43(1)(aa) of the 1952 Act (remand centres and young offender institutions) ;

(d) a Governor or other person working at a remand centre as defined in section 43(1)(a) of the 1952 Act ;

(e) the manager or other person working at a removal centre as defined in section 147 of the 1999 Act (interpretation) ;

(f) any person working at a short-term holding facility as defined in section 147 of the 1999 Act;

(g) any person exercising escort functions under arrangements made under section 80 of the 1991 Act (arrangements for the provision of prisoner escorts) ; and

(h) any person exercising escort functions under arrangements made under section 156 of the 1999 Act (arrangements for the provision of escorts and custody) .