Corrections Act 2004

Transitional provisions - Designations

235: Penal institutions deemed to be prisons and other designation changes

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"Some places and job titles in the law are being renamed, like 'penal institution' to 'prison'."

When you read other laws or documents, you must replace the words "penal institution" with "prison", unless it does not make sense in that context. You do this because the law is changing how it refers to these places. Any land or building that was a penal institution under the Penal Institutions Act 1954 is now considered a prison.

If a place was declared a prison under the Penal Institutions Act 1954, you consider it a corrections prison under section 32 of this Act. If it was a Police jail, you still call it a Police jail, but under section 32 of this Act. You make these changes when the new law starts.

When you read other laws or documents, you must also replace the words "superintendent of a penal institution" with "manager of a prison", unless it does not make sense. You do the same for "inspector of a penal institution", replacing it with "inspector of corrections", to keep the language consistent with the new law. This helps you understand the laws and documents in the same way as before, but with the new names for these places and roles.

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Part 3Transitional provisions
Designations

235Penal institutions deemed to be prisons and other designation changes

In any Act, regulation, rule, order, agreement, deed, instrument, application, notice, or other document of any kind in force at the commencement of this section, every reference to a penal institution must, unless the context otherwise requires, on the commencement of this section, be read as a reference to a prison.
Any land or building that, immediately before the commencement of this section, is declared to be a penal institution under the Penal Institutions Act 1954 is—
deemed to be established under section 32 of this Act as a prison:
if declared to be a prison under section 4 of the Penal Institutions Act 1954, deemed to be established under section 32 of this Act as a corrections prison:
if declared to be a Police jail under section 4 of the Penal Institutions Act 1954, deemed to be established under section 32 of this Act as a Police jail.

In any Act, regulation, rule, order, agreement, deed, instrument, application, notice, or other document of any kind in force at the commencement of this section, every reference to a superintendent of a penal institution or the superintendent of a specified penal institution, must on the commencement of this section, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to a manager of a prison or the manager of the specified prison, as the case may require.
In any Act, regulation, rule, order, agreement, deed, instrument, application, notice, or other document of any kind in force at the commencement of this section, every reference to an inspector of a penal institution must on the commencement of this section, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to an inspector of corrections.