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Explanatory Note

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but

is intended to indicate their general purport.)

Regulation 3 amends regulation 7(2) of the

principal regulations in consequence of section 2 of the

Training Centres (Amendment) Ordinance 1973 which reduces

the minimum period of detention in a training centre

from nine to six months.

Regulation 4 replaces the existing regulation

12(3) and provides that an inmate of a training centre

may upon his release be given a cash grant in accordance

with an earnings scheme approved by the Commissioner of

Prisons.

Regulation 5 replaces the limited list of

disciplinary offences in regulation 19 of the principal

regulations, and incorporates the more extensive list of

offences set out in rule 61 of the Prison Rules.

Regulations 6(a) and (b) and 8 substitute

"officer-in-charge" for "Superintendent" in the existing

regulations 20, 21 and 22.

Regulation 6(b) also provides that a

punishment of caning may be awarded for offences against

discipline under the existing regulation 20(2).

Regulation 6(d) provides for appeals to the

Commissioner against awards of punishment made by the

officer-in-charge.

Regulation 7 sets out the procedure to be

followed upon the infliction of caning awarded under

regulation 20(2) of the principal regulations.