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TERRORISM (EMERGENCY POWERS) ACT 2003 - SECT 21A

Definitions

In this Part, unless the contrary intention appears:

"authorised police officer" means a police officer authorised under section 21D.

"confirmed preventative detention order" means a preventative detention order that has been confirmed (with or without variation) by the Supreme Court under section 21P.

"corresponding law" means:

        (a)     Division 105 of the Criminal Code (Cth) and the regulations and other instruments made under that Division, as in force from time to time; or

        (b)     a law of a State or another Territory that provides for preventative detention of persons in relation to terrorist acts (including a law of a State or another Territory declared by regulation to be a corresponding law).

"eligible Judge" means a Supreme Court Judge for whom a declaration is in force under section 21C.

Ethical and Professional Standards Command means the part of the Police Force (however named) that oversees the ethical and professional standards of police officers.

"identification material", in relation to a person, means samples taken from a part of the person's body from which a DNA profile may be derived, prints of the person's hands, fingers, feet or toes, recordings of the person's voice, samples of the person's handwriting or photographs (including video recordings other than recordings made in the ordinary course of operation of a security camera fitted at, or in the immediate vicinity of, a place where the person is being detained under a preventative detention order) of the person.

"lawyer" means an Australian legal practitioner as defined in section 6(a) of the Legal Profession Act 2006 .

"national security" has the same meaning as in the National Security Information (Criminal and Civil Proceedings) Act 2004 (Cth).

"nominated police officer" means a police officer nominated under section 21X(1).

"preventative detention order" means a preventative detention order made under section 21G, as varied under section 21P , 21S or 21T.

"prohibited contact order "means an order made under section 21Q or 21R, as varied under section 21S or 21T.

same terrorist act has the meaning in section 21B.

"senior police officer" means a police officer of or above the rank of Assistant Commissioner



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