Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591:clause:1a_13
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1A cl 13
Character Range: 397921–398534

13  End of detention
  A detainee must be released from detention:
 (a) as soon as an officer or detention officer knows or reasonably believes that the detainee is an Australian citizen or an Australian resident; or
 (b) at the time the detainee is brought before a magistrate following a decision to charge the detainee with an offence referred to in subclause 8(1); or
 (c) at the time a decision is made not to charge the detainee with an offence referred to in that subclause; or
 (d) at the end of 168 hours after the detention began;
whichever occurs first.

Division 6—Offence of escaping from detention