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Detention orders not invalid or inoperative on certain matters.—No detention order shall be invalid or inoperative merely by reason:— that 'the persons to be detained thereunder, though within the State, is outside the limits of the terrilorial jurisdiction of the officer making the order; or that the place of detention of such person, though within the State, is outside the said limits. [12. Maximum period of detention.—In pursuance of the first detention order made against any person under this Act and confirmed under section 10, he may be detained for a period which may extend up to ,six months from the date of the detention and in pursuance of such subsequent detention order made against such person, he may be detained for a period which may extend up to a maximum of one year.]