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329: Arresting or detaining officer may seek assistance
or “Police or immigration officers can ask others for help when arresting or detaining someone”
You could also call this:

“Chief executive can approve places to hold people for immigration reasons, with some limits”

The chief executive can approve any place for keeping people who are being held for immigration reasons. This means the chief executive can decide where people will stay when they are detained under the Immigration Act.

However, there’s an important rule about a special situation called a ‘mass arrival group’. If a large group of people arrives together, the chief executive can’t use a police station or a prison to keep them while waiting for a special permission called a ‘mass arrival warrant’. This rule is explained in section 313(2)(b)(ii) of the Act.

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Form of custody

330Approval of premises for purpose of immigration detention

  1. The chief executive may approve any premises for the purpose of detention under this Act.

  2. Despite subsection (1), the chief executive may not approve a police station or prison as a place that may be used to detain 1 or more members of a mass arrival group under section 313(2)(b)(ii) pending determination of an application for a mass arrival warrant.

Notes
  • Section 330(2): inserted, on , by section 14 of the Immigration (Mass Arrivals) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 17).