(Act No. 52 of 1974) [13th December 1974] An Act to provide for preventive detention in certain cases for the purposes of conservation and augmentation of, foreign exchange and prevention of smuggling activities and for matters connected therewith. Whereas violations of foreign exchange regulations and smuggling activities are having an increasingly deleterious affect on the national economy and thereby a serious adverse effect on the security of the State; And whereas having regard to the persons by whom and the manner in which such activities or violations are organized and carried on, and having regard to the fact that in certain areas which are highly vulnerable to smuggling, smuggling activities of a considerable magnitude are clandestinely organised and carried on it is necessary for the effective prevention of such activities and violations to provide for detention of persons concerned in any manner therewith; Be it enacted by Parliament in the twenty-fifth Year of the Republic

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S.1 Short title extent and commencement

S.2 Definitions

S.3 Power to make orders detaining certain persons

S.4 Execution of detention orders

S.5 Power to regulate place and conditions of detention

S.5A Grounds of detention sever able

S.6 Detention orders not to be invalid or inoperative on certain grounds

S.7 Powers in relation to absconding persons

S.8 Advisory Boards

S.9 1[Cases in which and circumstances under which persons may be detained for periods longer than three months without obtaining the opinion of Advisory Board

S.10 Maximum period of detention

S.11 Revocation of detention orders

S.12 Temporary release of persons detained

S.12A Special provisions for dealing with emergency

S.13 Protection of action taken in good faith

S.14 Repeal