The National Security Act `1980
An Act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases and for matters connected therewith.
List of Chapters & Sections
All sections
- 1Short title and extent
- 2Definitions
- 3Power to make orders detaining certain persons
- 4Execution of detention orders
- 5Power to regulate place and conditions of detention
- 5AGrounds of detention severable
- 6Detention orders not to be invalid or inoperative on certain grounds
- 7Powers in relation to absconding persons
- 8Grounds of order of detention to be disclosed to persons affected by the order
- 9Constitution of Advisory Boards
- 10Reference to Advisory Boards
- 11Procedure of Advisory Boards
- 12Action upon the report of the Advisory Board
- 13Maximum period of detention
- 14Revocation of detention orders
- 14ACircumstances in which persons may be detained for periods longer than three months without obtaining the opinion of Advisory Boards
- 15Temporary release of persons detained
- 16Protection of action taken in good faith
- 17Act not to have effect with respect to detentions under State laws
- 18Repeal and saving