13AZD
In forceQuestioning to be deferred to allow for interpreter
Part 2AAPreventative police detention
Division 6Questioning
Subdivision 1Authority to question
13AZD Questioning to be deferred to allow for interpreter
(1)
This section applies if a police officer has reasonable grounds to believe that a person being detained under this Part is unable, because of inadequate knowledge of the English language or a disability, to communicate with reasonable fluency in that language.
(2)
A police officer must, before any questioning commences section 13AZC, arrange for the presence of a competent interpreter and defer the questioning until the interpreter is present.
S. 13AZE inserted by No. 32/2018 s. 9.
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