Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following subsection:

(3A)  If the police officer who is detaining a person under a preventative detention order has reasonable grounds to believe that –

(a) the person is unable, because of inadequate knowledge of the English language, or a disability, to communicate with reasonable fluency in that language; and

(b) the person may have difficulties in choosing or contacting a lawyer because of that inability –

the police officer must give the person reasonable assistance (including, if appropriate, by arranging for the assistance of an interpreter) to choose and contact a lawyer under subsection (1) .