New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TERRORISM (POLICE POWERS) ACT 2002 - SECT 26ZI

26ZI Monitoring contact with family members, lawyers etc under sections 26ZE, 26ZG and 26ZH

(1) The contact the person being detained has with another person under section 26ZE, 26ZG or 26ZH may take place only if it is conducted in such a way that the contact, and the content and meaning of the communication that takes place during the contact, can be effectively monitored by a police officer exercising authority under the preventative detention order.

(2) The contact may take place in a language other than English only if the content and meaning of the communication that takes place during the contact can be effectively monitored with the assistance of an interpreter.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2), the interpreter referred to in that subsection may be a police officer.

(4) If the person being detained indicates that he or she wishes the contact to take place in a language other than English, the police officer who is detaining the person must:

(a) arrange for the services of an appropriate interpreter to be provided if it is reasonably practicable to do so during the period during which the person is being detained, and

(b) if it is reasonably practicable to do so-arrange for those services to be provided as soon as practicable.

(5) Any communication between:

(a) a person who is being detained under a preventative detention order, and

(b) a lawyer,

for a purpose referred to in section 26ZG is not admissible in evidence against the person in any proceedings in a court.

(6) A person (the "monitor") commits an offence if:

(a) the monitor is:

(i) a police officer who monitors, or

(ii) an interpreter who assists in monitoring,

contact that a person being detained under a preventative detention order has with a lawyer under section 26ZG while the detainee is being detained under the order, and

(b) information is communicated in the course of that contact, and

(c) the information is communicated for one of the purposes referred to in section 26ZG, and

(d) the monitor discloses that information to another person.

Maximum penalty: Imprisonment for 5 years.