Duration of preventative detention orders
13G Duration of preventative detention orders
S. 13G inserted by No. 5/2006 s. 4.
S. 13G(1) amended by No. 32/2018 s. 15.
Subject to subsection (2), the maximum period (including that period, as extended, or further extended, under section 13I) that may be specified in a preventative detention order made by the Supreme Court as the period during which a person may be detained under the order is 14 days less any period during which the person is actually detained under—
S. 13G(1)(a) inserted by No. 32/2018 s. 15.
an order for the person's detention made under a corresponding preventative detention law on the same basis; and
S. 13G(1)(b) inserted by No. 32/2018 s. 15.
Part 2AA on the same basis.
The maximum period that may be specified in an interim preventative detention order made by the Supreme Court as the period during which a person may be detained under the order is 48 hours.
Note
The order may continue to have effect after the 48 hours: see section 13E(6).
To avoid doubt, for the purposes of subsection (1) orders are made on the same basis if—
in the case of orders made on the basis of preventing a terrorist act from occurring, they relate to the same terrorist act occurring within the same period; and
in the case of orders made on the basis of preserving evidence of, or relating to, a terrorist act, they relate to the same terrorist act.
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