PART 4ACCOMMODATION, CLOTHING, HYGIENE AND FOOD

Provision of bedding30.

(1)

The Governor must—

(a)

provide every prisoner with a separate bed or sleeping plinth;

(b)

provide sufficient bedding as necessary for the prisoner's warmth and health; and

(c)

make provision for the bedding to be changed or cleaned as frequently as required to ensure good hygiene.

(2)

A prisoner may request to have only a mattress instead of a bed and the Governor may agree to this.

(3)

A prisoner may only have bedding which the Governor has provided under this rule or which the Governor has consented to the prisoner having.