PART 3DETAINED PERSONS

Communications

Use of telephones

28.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) a detained person must have access to a telephone at a short-term holding facility.

(2) A telephone system must be provided for incoming calls, and the detained persons must be notified promptly of such calls.

(3) The Secretary of State may impose reasonable limits and conditions on a detained person’s use of the telephone.

(4) If a detained person does not have the necessary funds, the Secretary of State may bear the expense of any reasonable number of telephone calls which that person wishes to make.