Article 52 Members visiting short-term holding facilities

The members of the Visiting Committee for a short-term holding facility must visit the short-term holding facility frequently and must arrange a rota whereby at least one of its members visits the short-term holding facility at least once a month.

A member of the committee must have access at any time to every part of the short-term holding facility and to every detained person and they may interview any detained person out of the hearing of an officer.

A member of the committee must have access to those records of the short-term holding facility necessary to enable the member to discharge their duties under these Rules.