Article 3. Basic concepts

The following basic concepts are used in this Law:

cell — a room located in a special reception facility intended for holding persons subjected to administrative detention;

special reception facility — a special institution within the system of internal affairs bodies intended for the reception and holding of persons subjected to administrative detention;

administration of a special reception facility — the head of the special reception facility and his deputies responsible for managing the facility;

staff of a special reception facility — service members, sergeants, and officers of the internal affairs bodies who perform duties related to ensuring the regime for serving administrative detention;

administrative detention — a type of administrative penalty consisting in keeping a person under conditions of temporary isolation from society for a term from three to fifteen days, and for up to thirty days under a state of emergency for encroachment upon public order;

person subjected to administrative detention— a citizen in respect of whom a decision on administrative detention has been issued.