New Zealand Legislation: Acts

29 National Preventive Mechanism's access to places of detention and persons detained

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

  • (a) any place of detention for which it is designated, and to every part of that place:

  • (b) any person in a place of detention for which it is designated.

  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).