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Part II · Powers of Preventive Detention

6A. Detention order not to be invalid or inoperative on certain grounds

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(1)

No detention order shall be invalid or inoperative by reason—

(a)

that the person to whom it relates—

(i)

was immediately before the making of the detention order detained in any place other than a place of detention referred to in subsection 6(2);

(ii)

continued to be detained immediately after the making of the detention order in the place in which he was detained under section 3 before his removal to a place of detention referred to in subsection 6(2), notwithstanding that the maximum period of such detention under subsection 3(2) had expired; or

(iii)

was during the duration of the detention order on journey in police custody or any other custody to a place of detention referred to in subsection 6(2); or

(b)

that the detention order was served on him at any place other than the place of detention referred to in subsection 6(2), or that there was any defect relating to its service upon him.

(2)

No fresh detention order or fresh restriction order referred to in subsection 11B(2) shall be invalid or inoperative by reason that no fresh

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report has been submitted under subsection 3(3) and subsection 5(4) or that that detention order or restriction order was made on the same ground as the previous detention order or restriction order.

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