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AUSTRALIAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE ORGANISATION ACT 1979 - SECT 34DN

Interpreter provided at request of prescribed authority

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   the subject of a questioning warrant appears before a prescribed authority for questioning under the warrant; and

  (b)   the prescribed authority believes on reasonable grounds that the subject is unable, because of inadequate knowledge of the English language or a physical disability, to communicate with reasonable fluency in that language.

  (2)   A person exercising authority under the warrant must arrange for the presence of an interpreter.

  (3)   The prescribed authority must:

  (a)   defer informing the subject under section   34DC and, if applicable, section   34DD until the interpreter is present; and

  (b)   give a direction under paragraph   34DE(1)(d) deferring questioning of the subject under the warrant until the interpreter is present.


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