Interviews while detained
10.—(1) This regulation applies where a relevant party is required to attend an interview while he or she is detained.
(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), a relevant party must be given at least three working days written notice of the date and time of the interview and how it is to be conducted.
(3) A relevant party may agree to an interview taking place with less than three working days notice.
(4) The notice mentioned in paragraph (3) need not be in writing.
(5) An interview may take place in person or by telephone; and a reference in this regulation to how an interview is to be conducted is a reference to whether it is to take place in person or by telephone.
(6) Subject to paragraph (7), regulations 7 and 9 do not apply where a relevant party is required to attend an interview under this regulation.
(7) Where a relevant party is interviewed by telephone—
(a)paragraph (5) of regulation 9 applies as if the words “(and, as the case may be, the other relevant party)” in sub-paragraph (b) were omitted; and
(b)paragraph (6) of that regulation applies as if—
(i)the words “(or the other relevant party)”;
(ii)the words “(or, as the case may be, the other relevant party)” in sub-paragraph (a);
(iii)the words from “or with” to the end in sub-paragraph (b); and
(iv)the words “(or, as the case may be, the other relevant party)” in sub-paragraph (c),
were omitted.