33Taking offenders into custody

#### 33 Taking offenders into custody (1) Where an authorised person reasonably suspects that a person has committed a prohibited act, the authorised person may cause the person to be taken into custody. (2) An authorised person who causes a person to be taken into custody must, unless subsection (2A) applies, cause the person: (a) to be brought, as soon as practicable, before a magistrate to be dealt with under this Act; and (b) to be held in custody until the person can be so brought before a magistrate. (2A) Where an authorised person causes a person to be taken into custody on board an aircraft that is engaged in a flight that ends in a foreign country, the authorised person must cause the person: (a) to be delivered into the custody of a member, however described, of a police force of that foreign country; and (b) to be held in custody until the person can be so delivered. (3) This section does not prevent the arrest of a person under any other law for an offence against this Act. (4) In this section: > prohibited act means: (a) a Convention offence; or (b) an act resulting in Article 6 of the Hague Convention applying in respect of the relevant person; or (c) an act resulting in Article 6 of the Montreal Convention applying in respect of the relevant person; or (d) an act mentioned in paragraph 1 of Article 11 of the Tokyo Convention (other than an act covered by paragraph (a), (b) or (c)), or an attempt to do such an act.