Hong Kong Regulations

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION (TREATMENT OF DETAINED PERSONS) ORDER - PARAGRAPH 18

Visits by justices

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 1 of 2003 s. 3

(1) The Commission shall provide facilities to justices of the peace appointed
by the Chief Executive for that purpose (in this paragraph referred to as
visiting justices) to enable them to visit detainees and satisfy themselves
that detainees are held in accordance with this order and any other law. (1 of
2003 s. 3)

(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) visiting justices shall be permitted
to visit detainees at all reasonable times and for reasonable periods.

(3) A record of such a visit shall be made in the arrest/detention sheet of
every detainee.

(4) There shall be kept at the offices of the Commission a book to be known as
the Visiting Justices Report Book, in which visiting justices shall record
their visits and their observations and comments.

(5) Any adverse observation or comment recorded in the Visiting Justices
Report Book shall as soon as practicable be brought to the attention of the
Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner.