New Zealand Legislation: Acts

28 National Preventive Mechanism's access to information

• For the purposes of this Act, every person must permit a National Preventive Mechanism to have unrestricted access to the following information:

  • (a) the number of detainees in the places of detention for which it is designated:

  • (b) the treatment of detainees in those places of detention:

  • (c) the conditions of detention applying to detainees in those places of detention.

  Part 2 (comprising sections 15 to 37) was inserted, as from 5 December 2006, by section 7 Crimes of Torture Amendment Act 2006 (2006 No 68).