s 26 Independent monitoring boards
(1) The boards appointed under section 6 of the Prison Act 1952 (boards of visitors) are renamed as independent monitoring boards. (2) Accordingly, in section 6 of that Act— (a) for the sidenote there is substituted “ Independent monitoring boards ” ; (b) in subsection (2), for “board of visitors” there is substituted “ group of independent monitors ” ; (c) after subsection (2) there is inserted— (2A) The groups so appointed are to be known as independent monitoring boards. (d) in subsection (3), for “boards of visitors” there is substituted “ independent monitoring boards ” and for “a board of visitors” there is substituted “ an independent monitoring board ” . (3) In section 6(2) of that Act the words from “of whom” to the end cease to have effect.