Power to detain person under preventative detention order
21V Power to detain person under preventative detention order
(1) While a preventative detention order is in force in relation to a person:
any police officer may take the person into custody; and
any police officer may detain the person.
(2) A police officer has, for the purpose of taking a person into custody under a preventative detention order or preventing the person escaping from that custody, the same powers and functions as the officer would have if the officer were taking the person into custody in relation to the commission of an offence or preventing the person escaping from that custody.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to the extent to which particular powers and functions are provided for in this Part.
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