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CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 20BG

Attorney - General to review detention of persons taken back into detention

  (1)   Where, under subsection   20BF(5), a prescribed authority directs that a person be detained in prison or in a hospital, the Attorney - General must, as soon as practicable after the person is so detained, consider (in this section called the initial consideration ) whether or not the person should be released from detention and must, while the person is in detention, reconsider the matter at least once in each period of 6 months after the initial consideration.

  (2)   Subsection   20BD(2) and, subject to the modification set out in subsection   (3), section   20BE, apply in relation to an initial consideration and to any reconsideration under subsection   (1).

  (3)   For the purposes of applying section   20BE, subsection   20BE(1) has effect as if the reference in that subsection to subsection   20BD(1) were a reference to subsection   (1) of this section.



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