26C
CurrentSenior police officer with functions under preventative detention orders
26C Senior police officer with functions under preventative detention orders
If—
(a)
a number of police officers are detaining, or involved in the detention of, a person under a preventative detention order at a particular time, and
(b)
a function (other than a power) is expressed in this Part to be imposed on a police officer detaining the person,
the function is imposed at that time on the most senior of those police officers.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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