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21K Maximum period of detention
(1) The maximum period for which a person may be detained under a
preventative detention order is 14 days less any period the person
is actually detained under a preventative detention order, or an
order for the person's detention made under a corresponding law
against the person, in relation to the same terrorist act.
(2) Despite subsection (1), the maximum period for which a person
may be detained under a preventative detention order made on the
basis of preserving evidence of, or relating to, a terrorist act that
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has occurred is not reduced by any period for which the person is
detained under a preventative detention order, or an order for the
person's detention under a corresponding law, made on the basis of
preventing a terrorist act.