{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/service-custody-and-service-of-relevant-sentences-rules-2009/article-6",
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  "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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Service custody facilities overseas",
  "text": "(1) 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.\n(2) 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.\n(3) 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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 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/6",
    "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."
}