However, it is also right that schedule 7 powers can only be used "for the purpose of determining" whether the detained person is a terrorist. The use of the power to detain and question someone who the examining officer knows is not a terrorist is plainly not for this purpose, so it would neither be within the spirit nor the letter of the law.
is factually incorrect I'm not sure the insinuation that this is less valuable because it is political point scoring is that valuable.
