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FIREARMS ACT 1996 - SECT 112ZX

Process on release of individual

    (1)     Once the individual is served with the order or the time within which the individual may be held in custody expires, the individual must be informed—

        (a)     that they are free to go; and

        (b)     if the individual is at a police station or other safe place, of the effect of subsections (2), (3) and (4) and section 112ZZD.

    (2)     If the individual is at a police station or other safe place, once served with the order or once the time within which the individual may be held in custody expires, the individual must be taken to a place determined under subsection (3), unless the individual refuses to be so taken.

    (3)     The place to which the person must be taken under subsection (2) is whichever of the following is agreed between the individual and the police officer or determined by the police officer, if there is good reason to do so—

        (a)     the place where the individual was located at the time of the giving of the direction, the search or the detention (as the case requires);

        (b)     a safe place that is near to the place referred to in paragraph (a).

    (4)     A police officer's determination under subsection (3) must be recorded in writing.

S. 112ZY inserted by No. 10/2024 s. 14.



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