10—Making of preventative detention order
(1) On application by
a police officer, an issuing authority may make a preventative detention order
in relation to a person.
(2)
Subsection (1) has effect subject to sections 6, 7 and 8.
(3) A preventative
detention order is an order that the person specified in the order may
be—
(a)
taken into custody; and
(b)
detained during the period that—
(i)
starts when the person is first taken into custody under
the order; and
(ii)
ends a specified period of time after the person is first
taken into custody under the order.
(4) The order must be
in writing.
(5) The period of time
specified in the order under subsection (3)(b)(ii) must not exceed—
(a) if
the issuing authority is a senior police officer—24 hours;
(b) if
the issuing authority is a Judge—14 days.
(6) A preventative
detention order must set out—
(a) the
name of the person in relation to whom it is made; and
(b) the
period during which the person may be detained under the order; and
(c) the
date on which, and the time at which, the order is made; and
(d) the
date and time after which the person may not be taken into custody under the
order.
Note—
Paragraph (d)—see section 11(2).
(7) If the person in
relation to whom the order is made is—
(a)
under 18 years of age; or
(b)
incapable of managing his or her affairs,
the order may provide that the period each day for which the person is
entitled to have contact with another person under section 39(2) is the
period of more than 2 hours that is specified in the order.