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NPM may keep document or other thing

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Part 1AACT National Preventive Mechanism
Division 1A.3Examination of treatment of detainees in places of detention

8O NPM may keep document or other thing

(1)

If a document or something else is given to the NPM under section 8M or section 8N, the NPM may, for a period that is necessary for the NPM’s consideration to which the document or thing relates—

(a)

take possession of, make copies of, or take extracts from, the document or take possession of the thing; and

(b)

keep the document or thing.

(2)

During the period mentioned in subsection (1), the NPM must allow anyone who would be entitled to inspect the document or thing, if it were not in the possession of the NPM, to inspect it and, for a document, make copies of, or take extracts from, it.

(3)

At the end of the period mentioned in subsection (1), the NPM must return a document or thing.

Division 1A.4 Recommendations and reporting about treatment of detainees in places of detention

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