Act Number: 65

Act Name: The National Security Act, 1980

Year: 1980

Enactment Date: 1980-12-27

Long Title: An Act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases and for matters connected therewith.

Ministry: Ministry of Home Affairs

Department: Department of Internal Security

Section 10: Reference to Advisory Boards.
    Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Act, in every case where a detention order has been made under this Act, the appropriate Government shall, within three weeks from the date of detention of a person under the order, place before the Advisory Board constituted by it under section 9, the grounds on which the order has been made and the representation, if any, made by the person affected by the order, and in case where the order has been made by an officer mentioned in sub-section (3) of section 3, also the report by such officer under sub-section (4) of that section.
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