The power to make a continuing detention order under s 17(1) of the Dangerous Sexual Offenders Act 2006 (WA) is not contingent on the existence of an order properly made under s 14(2)(a) or reports by two qualified experts. The absence of such reports is to be addressed through the court's discretion to adjourn, not through jurisdictional limitations on power. Separately, the definition of 'qualified psychologist' in s 3 of the Act requires prescribed qualifications or accreditations to be in force; in the absence of such regulations, no psychologist can be a qualified psychologist for the purposes of the Act.
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