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Wednesday, 25 June 2003
Page: 12608


Senator ROBERT RAY (8:26 PM) —To follow up Senator Brown's point, I think Senator Brown understood that the issuing authority cannot issue one warrant until the other one has expired. The more pertinent question is: can the Director-General approach the Attorney-General while the previous warrant is extant? That affects the amount of timing between the two warrants. Clearly, if he cannot there are going to be a number of hours by the time the Director-General gets his case together, goes to the Attorney-General, the Attorney-General gives it proper consideration then authorises the Director-General to go to the issuing authority to issue a second warrant. We are in nearly all instances talking about six, eight or 10 hours and in some cases a couple of days. If it can all be done beforehand, and you just wait for the person to be released and then rush into an issuing authority, then Senator Brown's point becomes a little more worrying because it could be that by the time he gets off the tram on the way home he is picked up again and taken back in.