{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-10",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1096",
  "legislation_title": "The Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Accommodation",
  "text": "(1) 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—\n(a) 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;\n(b) the room or cell is of a size of at least seventeen cubic metres for each detainee confined in it;\n(c) 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.\n(2) 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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 10 in force at 31.10.2009, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1096/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:12:42.593997+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}