Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Where an authorised person reasonably suspects that a person has committed a prohibited act, the authorised person may cause the person to be taken into custody.
(2) An authorised person who causes a person to be taken into custody must, unless subsection ( 2A) applies, cause the person:
(a) to be brought, as soon as practicable, before a magistrate to be dealt with under this Act; and
(b) to be held in custody until the person can be so brought before a magistrate.
(2A) Where an authorised person causes a person to be taken into custody on board an aircraft that is engaged in a flight that ends in a foreign country, the authorised person must cause the person:
(a) to be delivered into the custody of a member, however described, of a police force of that foreign country; and
(b) to be held in custody until the person can be so delivered.
(3) This section does not prevent the arrest of a person under any other law for an offence against this Act.
(b) an act resulting in Article 6 of the Hague Convention applying in respect of the relevant person; or
(c) an act resulting in Article 6 of the Montreal Convention applying in respect of the relevant person; or
(d) an act mentioned in paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the
Tokyo Convention (other than an act covered by paragraph ( a), (b) or
(c)), or an attempt to do such an act.