Misuse of Drugs Act · s 22A

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s 22A

(1)

Whenever any person is arrested and detained in custody by an officer of the Bureau or a police officer for an offence against this Act and it appears that the investigation cannot be completed within a period of 48

hours from the time that the person is arrested —

(a)

an officer of the Bureau or a police officer may produce such person before a magistrate; and

(b)

the magistrate may, whether he has or has no jurisdiction to try the case, authorise the detention of such person in such custody as such magistrate thinks fit for a term not exceeding 15 days in the whole.

[S 20/1989; S 59/2007]

Misuse of Drugs

(2)

If a magistrate acting under subsection (1) does not have jurisdiction to try the case and considers further detention unnecessary, he may if the case is triable exclusively by the High Court, order such person to be produced before himself or any magistrate with a view to transmitting the case for trial by the High Court.