Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) A detention centre shall be conducted as:
(a) a unit detention centre;
(b) an area detention centre; or
(c) a corrective detention centre;
as declared in writing by the Chief of the Defence Force, a service chief or an authorized officer.
(2) A person who is sentenced to detention for a period shall not be detained:
(a) in a unit detention centre -- if the period exceeds 7 days; or
(b) in an area detention centre -- if the period exceeds 14 days.
(3) In calculating a period of detention for the purposes of subregulation (2):
(a) where a detainee is sentenced to 2 or more concurrent periods of detention -- the period of detention shall be taken to be the longer or longest of those periods; or
(b) where a detainee is sentenced to 2 or more periods of detention to be served consecutively -- the period shall be taken to be the aggregate of those periods.