7. Section 48 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :-
| 48. Where any person is suspected of the commission of an offence under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 45, it shall be lawful, notwithstanding anything in any other written law, for the Controller or any police officer of a rank not below that of an Assistant Superintendent, to authorize in writing the detention of that person in any place of detention approved by the Minister for the purpose of this section, until that person has established his innocence or an order is made against that person by the Minister in terms of section 28 (2) : |
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