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Crimes (High Risk Offenders) Act 2006
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#### 18CB Making of emergency detention orders
18CB Making of emergency detention orders
> > (1) The Supreme Court may make an emergency detention order if it appears to the Court that the matters alleged in support of the application for the order would, if proved, establish that because of altered circumstances, the offender poses an unacceptable and imminent risk of committing a serious offence if the emergency detention order is not made.
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> > (2) The Supreme Court is not to make more than one emergency detention order in respect of the same occasion of altered circumstances.
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> **pt 3, div 3A (ss 18CA–18CD):** Ins 2014 No 58, Sch 1 \[9\].
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> **s 18CB:** Ins 2014 No 58, Sch 1 \[9\]. Am 2017 No 54, Sch 1 \[46\].