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Corrections Management Act 2007
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163 Duration of investigative segregation
(1) The director-general must revoke a direction for investigative
segregation if the director-general believes, on reasonable grounds,
that the direction is no longer necessary or prudent.
(2) The director-general—
(a) may review a direction for investigative segregation of a
detainee at any time on the director-general’s own initiative or
on request by the detainee; and
(c) must review the direction at least once every 7 days while it
(3) After reviewing a direction for investigative segregation, the
director-general may—
(b) make a direction or further direction under section 160 (1); or
(c) revoke the direction under subsection (1).
(4) To remove any doubt, the director-general may make more than
1 direction under section 160 (1) in relation to a detainee for the same
investigation.
(5) Subject to this section and section 94 (Segregated detainees removed
to NSW), a direction, or further direction, for investigative
segregation ends at the end of the earlier of the following days:
(a) the 7th day after the day the direction is given;
(b) the day a presiding officer makes a decision under section 158
(Action by presiding officer) in relation to the alleged
disciplinary breach to which the direction applies (other than a
decision to direct investigative segregation of the detainee).