{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-51.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/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Adjudicator’s punishments",
  "text": "(1) If he finds a charge under rule 45 proved, the adjudicator may, subject to paragraph (2), impose one or more of the following punishments—\n(a) any of the punishments mentioned in rule 50(1); and\n(b) an award of additional days of service detention not exceeding twenty-eight days.\n(2) If more than one charge is found to be proved at the same hearing, punishments under this rule may be ordered to run consecutively but, the total period of additional days of service detention awarded shall not exceed twenty-eight days and the total period of cellular confinement shall not exceed ten days.\n(3) If the adjudicator finds a charge proved and imposes a punishment, he shall inform the person charged of the reasons for the punishment.\n(4) The adjudicator shall make and retain a note of the hearing including any reasons given under paragraph (3).\n(5) A copy of his note shall be promptly supplied by the adjudicator to the commandant, who shall promptly supply a copy of the note to the detainee concerned.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 51 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/51",
    "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."
}