Criminal Code Warning: this is not an official translation. Under all circumstances the original text in Dutch language of the Criminal Code (Wetboek van Strafrecht) prevails

Section 38la 
1.  Our Minister may terminate the detention under an entrustment order with compulsory treatment 
with regard to the foreign national who does not have legal residence in the Netherlands within the 
meaning of section 8 of the Aliens Act 2000. 
2.  Subsection (1) may only be applied with regard to a foreign national for whom Our Minister has 
arranged a suitable facility in the country of origin, which facility is aimed at alleviating, in any case, 

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the disorder and reducing the related risk of recidivism, and who has actually been removed from 
the Netherlands.