Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Young Offender Institution (Amendment) Rules 2008 and shall come into force on 1st April 2008.

Amendment of the Young Offender Institution Rules 2000

2. The Young Offender Institution Rules 2000( 2 ) are amended as follows.

3. In rule 2(1) (interpretation), the following definition shall be added in the appropriate place—

“ “information technology equipment” includes any laptop or notebook computer, desktop computer, gaming console, handheld computing device, personal organiser or any electronic device containing a computer processor and capable of connecting to the internet, and any reference to information technology equipment includes a reference to–

(a) a component part of a device of that description; or

(b) any article designed or adapted for use with any information technology equipment (including any disk, film or other separate article on which images, sounds, computer code or other information may be stored or recorded) ” .

4. For “board of visitors” substitute “independent monitoring board” in—

(a) each place where it occurs in rules 8(1), 10(5), 29(2), 52(3) and (5)( 3 ), 77(2), 78, 79(1), (2) and (4), 80(1), 81(1), 82(1), 83(1) and 84(1);

(b) the title to Part 5.

5. In rule 64(2)( 4 ) for “, governor or the board of visitors” substitute “or governor”.

6. After rule 74 insert—

“ 74A. List C Articles

A List C article is any article or substance in the following list—

(a) tobacco;

(b) money;

(c) clothing;

(d) food;

(e) drink;

(f) letters;

(g) paper;

(h) books;

(i) tools;

(j) information technology equipment. ”

7. In rule 83 for paragraph (3) substitute—

“ (3) A member of the board shall have access to the records of the young offender institution, except that members of the board shall not have access to any records held for the purposes of or relating to conduct authorised in accordance with Part 2 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ( 5 ) . ”