Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated ActsThe purpose of this part is to allow a person to be taken into custody and detained for up to 14 days as a measure of last resort—
(a) to prevent a terrorist act that is imminent and is, in any event, expected to happen some time within the next 14 days; or
(b) to preserve evidence of, or relating to, a terrorist act that happened within the last 28 days.
Note Section 58 (Questioning of detained person prohibited) provides that, while a person is detained under a preventative detention order, the person may only be questioned for very limited purposes.