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Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002
26CSenior police officer with functions under preventative detention orders
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#### 26C Senior police officer with functions under preventative detention orders
26C Senior police officer with functions under preventative detention orders
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> > (a) a number of police officers are detaining, or involved in the detention of, a person under a preventative detention order at a particular time, and
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> > (b) a function (other than a power) is expressed in this Part to be imposed on a police officer detaining the person,
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> the function is imposed at that time on the most senior of those police officers.
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> **pt 2A, div 1 (ss 26A–26C):** Ins 2005 No 114, Sch 1 \[1\].