§ The Prison Licensing Board
§ 1. The Prison Licensing Board shall include among its members—
- (a) a person who holds or has held judicial office;
- (b) a registered medical practitioner who is a psychiatrist;
- (c) a person appearing to the Secretary of State to have knowledge and experience of the supervision or after-care of discharged prisoners; and
- (d) a person appearing to the Secretary of State to have made a study of the causes of delinquency or the treatment of offenders.
§ 2. A person appointed to be a member of the Prison Licensing Board shall hold and vacate office under the terms of the instrument by which he is appointed, but may at any time resign his office; and a person who ceases to 1985 hold office as a member of the Board shall be eligible for reappointment.
§ 3. In Part II of Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1957 (bodies of which all members are disqualified under that Act), in its application to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, there shall be inserted (at the appropriate point in alphabetical order) the entry 'The Prison Licensing Board constituted under section (Constitution and functions of Prison Licensing Board and local review committees) of the Criminal Justice Act 1967'.
§ 4. There shall be paid to the members of the Board such remuneration and allowances as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine.
§ 5. The expenses of the Board under the last foregoing paragraph and any other expenses incurred by the Board in discharging its functions under section (Constitution and functions of Prison Licensing Board and local review committees) of this Act shall be defrayed by the Secretary of State out of moneys provided by Parliament.
§ 6. The Board shall as soon as practicable after the end of each year make to the Secretary of State a report on the performance of its functions during that year, and the Secretary of State shall lay a copy of each report so made before Parliament.
§ Local Review Committees
§ 7. The Secretary of State may out of moneys provided by Parliament pay to members of local review committees, and to persons assisting in or concerned with the carrying out of the functions of any such committee travelling or other allowances in accordance with such scales as may be determined by him with the consent of the Treasury, and may out of such moneys defray any other expenses of such committees to such amount as may be so determined.—[Mr. Roy Jenkins.]
§ Brought up, read the First and Second times, and added to the Bill.