{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-45.json",
  "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/45",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Procedure for dealing with breaches of discipline",
  "text": "(1) Where a detainee is to be charged with a breach of discipline under rule 43, the charge shall be brought and heard promptly.\n(2) Every charge shall be heard by either the commandant, a company commander with delegated powers or an adjudicator.\n(3) Save in exceptional circumstances, every charge shall be heard not later than—\n(a) 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;\n(b) 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;\n(c) where under rule 47 it is referred to an adjudicator, not later than four days after it is so referred.\n(4) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 45 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/45",
    "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."
}