Crimes Act 1914
Part IB
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Sentencing, imprisonment and release of federal offenders
Division 7
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Acquittal because of mental illness
SECTION 20BN
Attorney-General to review detention of persons taken back into detention
(1)
Where, under subsection 20BM(5) , a prescribed authority directs that a person be detained in prison or in a hospital, the Attorney-General must, as soon as practicable after the person is so detained, consider (in this section called the initial consideration ) whether or not the person should be released from detention and must, while the person is in detention, reconsider the matter at least once in each period of 6 months after the initial consideration.
(2)
Subsection 20BK(2) and, subject to the modification in subsection (3), section 20BL , apply in relation to an initial consideration and a reconsideration under subsection (1).
(3)
For the purposes of applying section 20BL , subsection 20BL(1) has effect as if the reference in that subsection to subsection 20BK(1) were a reference to subsection (1) of this section.
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Hide history noteWhere, under subsection 20BM(5) , a prescribed authority directs that a person be detained in prison or in a hospital, the Attorney-General must, as soon as practicable after the person is so detained, consider (in this section called the initial consideration ) whether or not the person should be released from detention and must, while the person is in detention, reconsider the matter at least once in each period of 6 months after the initial consideration.
(2)
Subsection 20BK(2) and, subject to the modification in subsection (3), section 20BL , apply in relation to an initial consideration and a reconsideration under subsection (1).
(3)
For the purposes of applying section 20BL , subsection 20BL(1) has effect as if the reference in that subsection to subsection 20BK(1) were a reference to subsection (1) of this section.