Article 10 AccommodationI1
United Kingdom
Subject to paragraph (2), no room or cell shall be used for the confinement a detainee serving a sentence of service detention in service custody premises unless—
a medical officer has certified that its size, lighting, heating, ventilation and fittings are adequate for health and that it allows the detainee to communicate with a member of staff of the service custody premises at any time;
the room or cell is of a size of at least seventeen cubic metres for each detainee confined in it;
a permission under rule 7(3)(c) has been issued by an inspector of service custody premises for its use for the confinement of detainees serving a sentence of service detention.
An officer of or above the rank of commodore, brigadier or air commodore may, if required by operational exigencies, authorise the confinement of a detainee for not more than fourteen days in a room or cell outside the UK that does not meet the requirements of paragraph (1)(b).