New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

LAW ENFORCEMENT (POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES) REGULATION 2016 - REG 39

39 Times to be disregarded in calculating investigation period

(1) In addition to any time referred to in section 117 of the Act, the following times are to be disregarded in determining how much of an investigation period has elapsed if the detained person concerned is a vulnerable person--

(a) any time that is required to allow for the person (or someone else on the person's behalf) to arrange for a support person to attend at the place of detention,

(b) any time that is required to allow the support person to arrive at the place of detention.

(2) However, those times are to be disregarded only to the extent that they are times during which the investigative procedure concerned is reasonably suspended or deferred.