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(1) A member of a visiting force, if sentenced by a service court of the sending state to imprisonment or detention may, under the authority of the President, given at the request of the sending state, be temporarily detained in custody in a detention barrack in Ghana.

(2) Where a member of a visiting force is in custody in a detention barrack in Ghana under subsection (1), the laws for the time being in force relating to the reception of prisoners from and their return to the service authorities of the home forces, their treatment while in custody in such detention barrack, and the circumstances in which they are to be released, shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in relation to the member of the visiting force in like manner as those laws apply to a member of a home force.