Regulation 3 Power to make telecommunications restriction order

(1)

The county court may make a telecommunications restriction order if the court—

(a)

is satisfied that a communication device identified in the order is inside a custodial institution, and

(b)

has no reason to think that the device is in the possession of a person who has authorisation to possess it.

(2)

A telecommunications restriction order has effect—

(a)

until the date, or the end of the period, that the order specifies (if any);

(b)

if no date or period is specified, until further order.

(3)

A telecommunications restriction order may provide for the order, or any specified requirements of it, not to apply in relation to any communication device that the applicant discovers to be—

(a)

not inside a custodial institution, or

(b)

in the possession of a person who has authorisation to possess it.

(4)

A telecommunications restriction order must specify a date on or before which the requirements of the order are to be complied with.

(5)

Unless the parties agree otherwise, the date specified under paragraph (4) must be the fifth working day after the date of the order.