New South Wales Consolidated Acts

TERRORISM (POLICE POWERS) ACT 2002 - SECT 26ZN

26ZN Annual reports to be given to Attorney General and Minister for Police

(1) The Commissioner of Police must report annually to the Attorney General and Minister for Police on the exercise of powers under this Part by police officers. The report is to be provided within 4 months after each 30 June.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), a report relating to a year ended on that 30 June must include the following matters:

(a) the number of applications for preventative detention orders (including interim orders) and the number of any such orders made, and the number of occasions on which such an order (other than an interim order) was not made following a hearing,

(b) the number of any such applications and orders in relation to adults and the number in relation to juveniles,

(c) the duration of each such order made,

(d) a statement as to whether each such order was made to prevent a terrorist act or to preserve evidence,

(e) a statement as to whether a person was taken into custody under each such order and, if so, the period for which the person was detained,

(f) a statement as to whether the person detained under such an order was principally detained in a correctional centre, juvenile correctional centre, juvenile detention centre, police facility or other place,

(g) the number of applications for prohibited contact orders and the number of any such orders made, the duration of each such order and the number of any such orders made in relation to adults and in relation to juveniles,

(h) the number of applications for revocation of an order and the number of revocations granted,

(i) particulars of any complaints in relation to the detention of a person under a preventative detention order made or referred during the year to the Ombudsman or Police Integrity Commission and the outcome of any complaint so made,

(j) a statement confirming the destruction of identification material required to be destroyed under section 26ZM (4).

(3) The reports are to be tabled by the Attorney General in each House of Parliament as soon as practicable after they are received by the Attorney General.

Note: Section 36 of the Act requires the Minister to carry out an annual review of the Act (to be tabled in Parliament).