New South Wales Consolidated Acts

COMMUNITY PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 6

6 Arrest warrants

(1) On an application made in accordance with this Act, the Court may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person against whom proceedings on an application for a preventive detention order are pending if it is satisfied, on the basis of the information given to the Court in connection with the application, that there are reasonable grounds on which a preventive detention order may be made.

(2) A warrant may be transmitted to the person to whom it is addressed by facsimile transmission, in which case the copy produced by the transmission is taken to be the original document.

(3) A person who is arrested under the authority conferred by a warrant under this section must be brought before the Court as soon as practicable and, in any case, within 72 hours of arrest.