TERRORISM (PREVENTATIVE DETENTION) ACT 2005 - SECT 28

TERRORISM (PREVENTATIVE DETENTION) ACT 2005 - SECT 28

28—Arrangement for detainee to be held in prison or remand centre

        (1)         A senior police officer may arrange for a person (the "subject") who is being detained under a preventative detention order to be detained under the order at a prison or remand centre.

        (2)         If an arrangement is made under subsection (1)—

            (a)         the preventative detention order is taken to authorise the person in charge of the prison or remand centre to detain the subject while the order is in force in relation to the subject; and

            (b)         section 33 applies in relation to the subject's detention under the order at the prison or remand centre as if—

                  (i)         the person in charge of it; or

                  (ii)         any other person involved in the subject's detention at the prison or remand centre,

were a person exercising authority under the order or implementing or enforcing the order; and

            (c)         the senior police officer who makes the arrangement is taken, while the subject is detained at the prison or remand centre, to be the police officer detaining the subject for the purposes of Part 5 and Part 6.