The Service Custody and Service of Relevant Sentences Rules 2009

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1

    1. 1.Citation, commencement and interpretation

    2. 2.Revocations

  3. PART 2

    1. 3.Places in which persons may be required to serve sentences of service detention

    2. 4.Committal to prisons and service custody premises and removal from service custody premises

    3. 5.Release from service detention

    4. 6.Service custody facilities overseas

    5. 7.Inspector of service custody premises

    6. 8.Automatic remission of sentence

  4. PART 3

    1. 9.Rules to be brought to the notice of detainees

    2. 10.Accommodation

    3. 11.Work and training of detainees in service custody premises

    4. 12.Sundays and public holidays

    5. 13.Work and training in association

    6. 14.Unauthorised work

    7. 15.Reimbursement allowance

    8. 16.Smoking

    9. 17.Communications generally

    10. 18.Personal correspondence

    11. 19.Correspondence with legal representatives and courts

    12. 20.Telephone calls

    13. 21.Personal visits

    14. 22.Visits by legal representatives

    15. 23.Interception of communications

    16. 24.Permanent log of communications

    17. 25.Disclosure of material

    18. 26.Retention of material

    19. 27.Medical attention

    20. 28.Religious books

    21. 29.Chaplain and other religious ministers

    22. 30.Duties of chaplain and other religious ministers

    23. 31.Religious services

    24. 32.The commandant may exclude any detainee from attending religious services...

    25. 33.Temporary release

    26. 34.Complaints

    27. 35.Admission to service custody premises

    28. 36.Searches

    29. 37.Escapes

    30. 38.Duration of sentences: persons unlawfully at large

    31. 39.Deaths in service custody premises

    32. 40.Mechanical restraint

    33. 41.Authorisation of mechanical restraint

    34. 42.Types of mechanical restraint

  5. PART 4 MCTC

    1. 43.Breaches of discipline

    2. 44.Delegation of disciplinary powers by the commandant

    3. 45.Procedure for dealing with breaches of discipline

    4. 46.Determination of mode of hearing

    5. 47.Reference to an adjudicator

    6. 48.Rights of detainees charged

    7. 49.Company commander’s punishments

    8. 50.Commandant’s punishments

    9. 51.Adjudicator’s punishments

    10. 52.Review of adjudicators’s punishment

    11. 53.Cellular confinement

    12. 54.Prospective award of additional days

    13. 55.Suspended punishments

  6. PART 5 MCTC

    1. 56.The purpose of MCTC is to hold detainees safely and...

    2. 57.Appointment of staff of MCTC

    3. 58.Separate accommodation

    4. 59.Segregation of detainees

    5. 60.Privileges of detainees under sentence

    6. 61.Education

    7. 62.Welfare officer

    8. 63.Appointment of the independent monitoring board

    9. 64.General duties of the independent monitoring board

    10. 65.Duties of the independent monitoring board on inspection of MCTC

    11. 66.Appointment of service visiting officer

    12. 67.Duties of the service visiting officer

    13. 68.Investigation of complaints by the service visiting officer

    14. 69.Resolution of complaints made to the service visiting officer

    15. 70.Earned remission of sentence

  7. PART 6

    1. 71.Offences in relation to service custody premises and persons under sentence

    2. 72.Persons having access to service custody premises

    3. 73.(1) Without prejudice to any other powers to prohibit or...

  8. PART 7

    1. 74.In these Rules— (a) references to a sentence of service...

    2. 75.The period of sixty days referred to in rule 6(1)...

    3. 76.In rules 7(3)(c) and 10(1)(c) the reference to permission by...

    4. 77.(1) This rule applies where immediately before commencement a detainee...

    5. 78.Where before commencement a detainee in MCTC began a sentence...

    6. 79.In this Part of these Rules— “commencement” means the date...

  9. Signature

  10. Explanatory Note