Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002

The person being detained is entitled to contact—

one of his or her family members, and

if he or she—

lives with another person and that other person is not a family member of the person being detained, or

lives with other people and those other people are not family members of the person being detained,

if he or she is employed—his or her employer, and

if he or she employs people in a business—one of the people he or she employs in that business, and

if he or she engages in a business together with another person or other people—that other person or one of those other people, and

if the police officer detaining the person being detained agrees to the person contacting another person—that person,

To avoid doubt, the person being detained is entitled, under subsection (1), to disclose—

the fact that a preventative detention order has been made in relation to the person, and

the fact that the person is being detained, and

the period for which the person is being detained.

In this section—

the person’s spouse or de facto partner, or

a parent, step-parent or grandparent of the person, or

a child, step-child or grandchild of the person, or

a brother, sister, step-brother or step-sister of the person, or

a guardian or carer of the person.