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Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015

Section 38: Secure colleges and other places for detention of young offenders etc

376.Subsection (1) substitutes section 43 of the Prison Act 1952 (young offender institutions etc). Currently section 43 gives the Secretary of State a power to provide young offender institutions, remand centres and secure training centres. New section 43 gives the Secretary of State a power to provide young offender institutions, secure training centres and, additionally, secure colleges (a new form of youth detention accommodation) (see new section 43(1)(c)). Section 95 of the Act (commencement) is relevant to the power in section 43(1)(c) - see the note below at paragraph 694.

377.Section 43 currently also provides that certain provisions of the Prison Act 1952 do not apply in relation to young offender institutions and secure training centres, and provides that certain provisions of that Act do apply in relation to those institutions (with or without modifications). Subsections (3) to (8) of section 43 largely replicate existing provision about the application of other provisions of the Prison Act 1952 in relation to young offender institutions and secure training centres, but this provision is expressed in clearer language. These subsections also make provision about the application of provisions of that Act in relation to secure colleges.

378.The provisions give the Secretary of State the power, in relation to secure colleges, to (among other things) purchase land, remove prisoners for judicial and other reasons and to make regulations for the measuring, photographing and drug/alcohol testing of prisoners.

379.Subsection (2) provides that rules modifying provisions of the Prison Act 1952 as they apply in relation to young offender institutions, secure training centres and secure colleges are subject to the negative procedure.

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