Integrity and children oversight bodies to be notified of police detention decision and person being taken into custody
13AZZM Integrity and children oversight bodies to be notified of police detention decision and person being taken into custody
S. 13AZZM inserted by No. 32/2018 s. 9.
The nominated senior police officer in relation to a person being detained under this Part must give written notice of the specified information to the following entities as soon as practicable after the officer knows of that information—
the Ombudsman under the Ombudsman Act 1973;
the IBAC Commissioner;
if the person is a child—
S. 13AZZM (1)(c)(i) amended by No. 47/2021 s. 22(7).
the Secretary; and
the Commission for Children and Young People.
For the purposes of subsection (1), the specified information is—
the making of the police detention decision; and
if the person in relation to whom the police detention decision is made is taken into custody under this Part, that the person has been taken into custody.
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