Notification of illness or death
33.—(1) If a detained person dies, becomes seriously ill, sustains a severe injury or is removed to hospital, the manager must inform the Secretary of State without delay.
(2) Upon receipt of the information in paragraph (1) the Secretary of State must at once inform—
(a)the detained person’s spouse, civil partner or next of kin (if their contact details are known), and
(b)any other person whom the detained person has reasonably asked to be informed.
(3) In any case in which the Secretary of State is under a duty to inform the detained person’s spouse, civil partner or next of kin under paragraph (2), this must be done in person by an official of the Secretary of State if it is reasonably practicable to do so.
(4) Without prejudice to paragraph (1), if a detained person dies at a short-term holding facility, the manager must give notice without delay to—
(a)the police;
(b)the coroner or, in Scotland, the procurator fiscal having jurisdiction, and
(c)the Visiting Committee(1) responsible for the short-term holding facility.
See section 152 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.