Article 6 Service custody facilities overseasI1

Subject to paragraph (2), a person upon whom a sentence of service detention has been passed outside the United Kingdom may be detained in one or more service custody facilities outside the United Kingdom for up to sixty days.

A person may only be detained under paragraph (1) if the relevant principal personnel officer, or an officer authorised by him, has approved his detention under that paragraph.

In paragraph (2) the relevant principal personnel officer is the principal personnel officer of the regular or reserve force of which the person referred to in paragraph (1) is a member.