Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 34M

             (1)  This section applies if the prescribed authority before whom a person first appears for questioning under a warrant issued under this Division believes on reasonable grounds that the person is unable, because of inadequate knowledge of the English language or a physical disability, to communicate with reasonable fluency in that language.

             (2)  A person exercising authority under the warrant must arrange for the presence of an interpreter.

             (3)  The prescribed authority must defer informing under section 34J the person to be questioned under the warrant until the interpreter is present.

             (4)  A person exercising authority under the warrant must defer the questioning under the warrant until the interpreter is present.