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TERRORISM (PREVENTATIVE DETENTION) ACT 2005 (NO 71 OF 2005) - SECT 10

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.



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