50Contact with family members etc

50 Contact with family members etc (1) A person detained under a preventative detention order is entitled, as soon as possible after the person is detained under the order, to contact the following people once by phone, fax or email: (a) subject to subsection (2), 1 of the person’s family members; (b) if the person— (i) lives with someone who is not a family member of the person; or (ii) lives with other people who are not family members of the person; the other person or 1 of the other people; (c) if the person is employed—the person’s employer; (d) if the person employs people in a business—1 of the people the person employs in the business; (e) if the person engages in business together with someone or other people—the other person or 1 of the other people; (f) if the police officer detaining the person agrees to the person contacting someone else—the other person.

(2) For subsection (1) (a), if the detained person has 2 parents or 2 or more guardians, the person is entitled to have contact with each of the parents or guardians. (3) The detained person is entitled, under subsection (1), to disclose only— (a) the fact that the person is being detained under a preventative detention order; and (b) the fact that the person is safe; and (c) the period for which the person is being detained; and (d) for contact with someone under subsection (1) (a) or (b)—where the person is being detained. (4) The detained person is also entitled to have the further contact with the person’s family or anyone else that is allowed under the (5) The form of contact that the detained person may have with someone under subsection (4) includes— (a) being visited by the person; and (b) communicating with the person by phone, fax or email. (6) The detained person is entitled to have contact with someone under subsection (4) for the period on any day, and on the days, allowed under the preventative detention order. (7) In this section: family member, of a person, means— (a) the person’s domestic partner; or (b) a parent, step-parent or grandparent of the person; or (c) a child, stepchild or grandchild of the person; or (d) a brother, sister, stepbrother or stepsister of the person; or

(e) a guardian or carer of the person.