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CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE ACT 2009 (NO 18 OF 2009) - SECT 51

51—Person taken into custody

        (1)         Subsection (2) applies if—

            (a)         a police officer of another participating jurisdiction (the "arresting jurisdiction") arrests a person under the law of the arresting jurisdiction

                  (i)         whether with or without a warrant; and

                  (ii)         whether in the State or another participating jurisdiction; and

            (b)         the person has a connection with a cross-border region.

        (2)         A police officer of the arresting jurisdiction may—

            (a)         keep the person in custody in the State; and

            (b)         while the person is in custody, take the person to a police station, court or other place in the State for any purpose that is authorised under the law of the arresting jurisdiction as applied by its cross-border laws.

        (3)         The law of the State does not apply in relation to the custody.



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