to appear in person or by a legal practitioner of his or
her choice and at his or her own expense.
(2) A tribunal appointed to review the cases of persons
who have been detained shall be composed of three
persons being, or qualified to be appointed as, judges of
the High Court
(3)
A tribunal composed of the same members shall not
review more than once the case of a particular person
who has been detained
(4)
On a review by a tribunal of the case of a person
who has been detained, the tribunal may order the
release of the person or it may uphold the detention;
and the authority by which the detention was
ordered shall act in accordance with the decision of
the tribunal for the release of any person.
(5)
No person may be detained under or by virtue of an
Act of the National Assembly referred to in section
35 during any state of emergency in excess of a
total of one hundred and eighty-two days (whether
such days are consecutive or not) and, on the expiry
of that period, any person who has been so detained
shall be entitled to invoke the provisions of section
19 (right to person liberty).
(6)
In every month during the period in which a state of
public emergency is in force and in which there is a
sitting of the National Assembly, a Secretary of
state authorise by the president shall make a report
to the National Assembly of the number of persons
detained by virtue of or under an Act of the
National Assembly to which section 35 refers and
the number of cases in which the authority which
ordered the detention has acted in accordance with
the decisions of the tribunal as provided in
subsection (4).
(7)
For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that
where the declaration of a state of public emergency
is revoked or otherwise ceases to be in force, any
person who is in detention or in custody by virtue of
or under an Act of the National Assembly to which
section 35 refers, other than a person sentence to
imprisonment by a court for an offence against such
a law for a term which has not then expired, shall be
released immediately without further order.