# The Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009, Article 10: Accommodation

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(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—
(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;
(b) the room or cell is of a size of at least seventeen cubic metres for each detainee confined in it;
(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.
(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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1096/article/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-10
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