Explanatory note

These Rules amend the Short-term Holding Facility Rules 2018 (S.I. 2018/409) by providing for a sub-category of short-term holding facility, called a residential holding room. Persons may be detained in a residential holding room for no more than 96 hours (which the Secretary of State may authorise to be extended if the Secretary of State determines that exceptional circumstances require it).

The following rules of the Short-term Holding Facility Rules 2018 are disapplied from residential holding rooms: rule 24 (correspondence), rule 29 (access to the internet), rule 35 (removal from association), rule 37 (temporary confinement) and rule 48 (visitors). Rule 13 (accommodation), rule 14 (sleeping accommodation), rule 15 (families and minors), rule 23 (outside contacts), rule 27 (legal adviser), rule 30 (medical screening), rule 31 (general medical care) and rule 32 (special illnesses and conditions) are modified in respect of residential holding rooms.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.