Naval Discipline Act 1957

82 Naval Detention Quarters Rules

(1) The Admiralty may set apart any premises or vessels under the control of the Admiralty, or any parts of such premises or vessels, as naval detention quarters, and may make rules (in this Part of this Act referred to as Naval Detention Quarters Rules) with respect to all or any of the following matters, that is to say—

(a) the provision, classification, regulation and management of naval detention quarters ;

(b) the classification, regulation, employment, discipline and control of persons serving sentences of imprisonment or detention passed under this Act in naval detention quarters or otherwise in naval custody ;

(c) the removal of such persons from such quarters or custody as aforesaid, either temporarily or by way of transfer to another establishment or form of custody, and their release on the expiration or determination of their term of imprisonment or detention ;

(d) the temporary release of such persons on compassionate grounds, the cases in which, periods for which and conditions subject to which they may be allowed out of such quarters or custody as aforesaid, and the remission of part of their sentences for good conduct and industry;

(e) the appointment, powers and duties of inspectors and visitors and of officers and other members of the staff, of naval detention quarters ;

and such rules may apply the provisions of the Coroners Acts, 1887 to 1926, to naval detention quarters as those provisions apply in relation to prisons.

(2) Naval Detention Quarters Rules shall not authorise the infliction of corporal punishment.

(3) Naval Detention Quarters Rules may apply with the necessary modifications all or any of the provisions of sections thirty-nine to forty-two of the Prison Act, 1952 (which relate to offences by persons other than prisoners).

(4) Naval Detention Quarters Rules may, to such extent as may be provided by the Rules, be made so as to apply to persons detained in naval detention quarters while serving sentences of imprisonment or detention awarded under the Army Act, 1955, or the Air Force Act, 1955, notwithstanding that such persons are not for the time being subject to this Act.

(5) Naval Detention Quarters Rules may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as are necessary for the purposes of the Rules.

(6) The Admiralty may, in respect of any foreign station on which persons subject to this Act are on active service, delegate the power to make Naval Detention Quarters Rules to the Commander-in-Chief or flag officer commanding the station, subject to such restrictions, reservations, exceptions and conditions as the Admiralty may think fit.

(7) Naval Detention Quarters Rules made by the Admiralty under this section shall be made by statutory instrument; and any statutory instrument containing such rules shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.