Article 45 Procedure for dealing with breaches of disciplineI1
United Kingdom
Where a detainee is to be charged with a breach of discipline under rule 43, the charge shall be brought and heard promptly.
Every charge shall be heard by either the commandant, a company commander with delegated powers or an adjudicator.
Save in exceptional circumstances, every charge shall be heard not later than—
subject to sub-paragraph (b), where it is heard by the commandant or the detainee’s company commander with delegated powers, the next day, not being a Sunday or public holiday, after the charge is brought;
where under rule 46 it is referred to the commandant by a company commander with delegated powers, the next day after it is so referred, not being a Sunday or a public holiday;
where under rule 47 it is referred to an adjudicator, not later than four days after it is so referred.
A detainee who is to be charged with a breach of discipline under rule 43 may be kept apart from other detainees pending the hearing of the charge.